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Add. 14764. In addition to the Hebrew version of Ibn Tibbon (from end
of I. xxvii.) with a few marginal notes and index, the codex contains
at the end of Part I. an Index of references made by the author to
explanations given in preceding or succeeding chapters. At the end of
the text the statement is added, that the translation was finished in
the month of Tebet 968 (1208). The Moreh is followed by Ruaḥ-ḥen, and
Ibn Tibbon’s Vocabulary of millot-zarot (incomplete), and is preceded
by four poems in praise of the Moreh, beginning Shim’u nebone leb,
Moreh nebuchim sa shelomi, De’i holek and Nofet maḥkim.
Bibl. Reg. 16 A, xi. This codex, written in Prov. curs. characters in
the year 1308, has in front a fragment of III. i., then follows the
poem of Meshullam, beginning Yehgu mezimmotai (Grätz Leket-shoshannim,
p. 151), and other poems.
The following MS. copies of Ibn Tibbon’s version are included in the
Oxford Bodleian Library; the numbers refer to Dr. Neubauer’s catalogue
of the MSS.:—
1250. An index of the passages from the Bible referred to in the work,
and an index of the contents precede the version. The marginal notes
contain chiefly omissions.
1251. This codex was written in 1675. The marginal notes contain
omissions and explanations.
1252. The marginal notes contain the translator’s remarks on I. lxxiv.
4, and III. xlvii. The version is followed by Ibn Tibbon’s vocabulary,
and his additional remarks on the reasons for the commandments. The MS.
was bought by Samuel ben Moses from a Christian after the pillage of
Padua, where it had belonged to a Synagogue of foreigners (lo’azim); he
gave it to a Synagogue of the same character at Mantua.
1253. The marginal notes include that of the translator on III. xlvii.
1254. 1. Text with marginal notes containing omissions.
1255. The marginal notes include those of the translator on I. xlvi.
and lxxiv. 5.
1256. The marginal notes contain various readings, notes relating to
Ḥarizi’s translation and the Arabic text; on fol. 80 there is a note in
Latin. There are in this codex six epigrams concerning the Moreh.
1257. Text incomplete; with marginal notes.
Fragments of the Version are contained in the following codices: 2047,
3, p. 65; 2283, 8; 2309, 2, and 2336.
Among the MS. copies of the Moreh in the Bibl. Nat. in Paris, there is
one that has been the property of R. Eliah Mizraḥi, and another that
had been in the hands of Azariah de Rossi (No. 685 and No. 691); the
Günzburg Library (Paris) possesses a copy (No. 771), that was written
1452 by Samuel son of Isaac for Rabbi Moses de Leon, and Eliah del
Medigo’s copy of the Moreh is in the possession of Dr. Ginsburg
(London); it contains six poems, beginning Moreh nebuchim sa; Emet
moreh emet; Bi-leshon esh; Mah-baʻaru; Kamu more shav.
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