Partimenti dello stato, partimento II (1626) / fr. 1 [175.1]
Italy - Modena - Archivio di Stato di Modena
Place in the volume / Place in the volume
Codicological definition / Codicological definition
Contents / Contents
Moses ben Maimon (1135-1204), Mishneh Torah, Sefer Qorbanot, Hilkhot Meḥusare kapparah 1,1-20,5.
Detached fragment.
Date & Place / Date & Place
Dimensions / Dimensions
State of conservation / State of conservation
Erased on the hair side; stains of moisture; traces of folding in the margins.
Writing Material / Writing Material
Light, smooth and of medium thickness parchment.
Ink / Ink
Dark brown ink; titles in black ink; decorations in red and blue ink.
Pricking / Pricking
Pricking visible in one outer margin.
Ruling / Ruling
Ruling by hard point in the hair side; distance between the ruled lines: 7-8 mm.
Page layout / Page layout
Text area: 319x177 mm; column: 319x80 mm; distance between the columns: 19 mm.
Justification / Justification
Line management: elongation of the last letter of the line; anticipation at the end of the line of the first letter of the following line.
Text layout / Text layout
Headings in enlarged Sephardi square script
Script / Script
Decoration / Decoration
Grid including the headings and ornamental floral motifs in blue and red ink.
Origine et bibliographie / Origine et bibliographie
M. Perani, L. Baraldi, I frammenti ebraici dell'Archivio di Stato di Modena, Tomo I (Inventari dei manoscritti delle biblioteche d'Italia, vol. 115), Olschki, Firenze 2012, p. 55: H.XIV.1.
The Bezalel Narkiss
Index of Jewish Art: https://cja.huji.ac.il/browser.php?mode=set&id=1556
Host volume / Host volume Partimenti dello stato, partimento II (1626)
Description / Description
Date & Place / Date & Place
1625-1626