Sefer Ma'alot ha-Middot — copie maghrébine (1481)

Maghrebi copy, dated 1481 by colophon (fol. 109), of the Sefer Ma’alot ha-Middot — an ethical treatise in twenty-four middot composed in Rome in the thirteenth century by Jehiel ben Jekuthiel ha-Rofé (Anaw family). According to the Cowley notice (1906, no. 2902): preface partially effaced, list of the 24 middot, text from fol. 1b to 108b, copyist's colophon fol. 109 (5241 A.M. = 1481), poetic pieces, and on fol. 110v an incomplete Judeo-Arabic sermon citing Maimonides; the final part treats astronomical details. Provenance: Given to the Bodleian by Adolf Neubauer himself in 1900; earlier provenance undocumented. Codicological notice — origin Maghreb (Morocco or Algeria, to be specified); copyist: to be identified (colophon partially obscure); script: Maghrebi; leaves: 113 folios; old catalogues: Cowley Catalogue 1906 · 2902; editorial status: Critical edition available. — Source: Mémoires des Manuscrits Juifs du Moyen-Âge Maghrébin (MMJMM), https://mmjmm.org/corpus/catalogue/bodleian-ms-heb-d-70; manuscript held at the Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Sources & resources

• Neubauer, A. & Cowley, A. E., Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Vol. II (Cowley, 1906), n° 2902.
• Jehiel b. Jekuthiel Anaw, Sefer Ma'alot ha-Middot — éditions : Constantinople 1511, Cremone 1556, Lemberg 1853.
• Fiche MMJMM : https://mmjmm.org/corpus/catalogue/bodleian-ms-heb-d-70