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Division of the Red Sea from BL Add 14763, f. 135

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Detail of a page: illustration of the explanation about the division of the Red Sea, at chapter 5 of Maimonides' commentary on tractate Avot of the Mishnah: 'They [the waters] were divided into many paths equal to the number of the tribes, as the appearance of a rounded bow'. Image taken from f. 135 of Miscellany of philosophical works including e. g. the Guide of the Perplexed by Maimonides in Samuel ibn Tibbon's Hebrew translation (ff. 8v-117), Maimonides' commentary on Pirqei Avot in Samuel ibn Tibbon's Hebrew translation (ff. 117v-138), ~Pereq Heleq~ (Maimonides' commentary on Tractate Sanhedrin, ch. 10) in Samuel ibn Tibbon's translation (ff. 139-143v), ~Tehiyyat ha-metim~ (The Resurrection of the Dead) by Maimonides (ff. 143v-148), ~Perush ha-milot ha-zarot~ (A glossary of foreign terms) by Samuel ibn Tibbon (ff. 148v-160), ~Keter malkhut~ (A Crown of Kingship) by Solomon ibn Gabirol (ff. 163v-165v), Aristotle's Meteorology in the translation of Samuel ibn Tibbon (ff. 182v-198), Sefer hathalot ha-nimtzaot (The Book of Principles) by Al-Farabi (ff. 198v-211v), etc. Written in Hebrew.

Hebrew manuscripts in the British museum

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maimonides samuel ibn tibbon solomon ibn gabirol aristotle and others division manuscripts medieval maimonides medicine hebrew manuscripts aristotle philosophy greek red sea british library