Cluj-Napoca, BAR MS. C.137 & MS C.204

The Cluj Mishne Torah fragments

The Library of the Romanian Academy (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

Codex

Parchment

Brown (iron-gall)

Uncertain

There is ruling

Grid of single vertical and horizontal lines

20

18

As part of a folio, the text frame in this ms is thought to have contained roughly 38 lines (see BwB).

217

97

145

97

The full measures of the folio were reconstructed to H = 330 mm and W = 252 mm.

15th Century CE

Northern Italy

Italy

Hebrew

Halakha

MS. C.137: Maimonides - Mishne Torah -Leavened and Unleavened Bread 7.1-4
MS C.204: Maimonides - Mishne Torah, Leavened and Unleavened Bread 5.15 - 5.20

No vowels or accents

Belea, Miruna; Papahagi, Adrian. Moses Maimonides – Mishne Torah (Fragment), Cluj-Napoca, Biblioteca Academiei Române, MS C.137, wrapper (https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-61k0) (last date accessed 17th August 2025)

Belea, Miruna; Papahagi, Adrian. Moses Maimonides – Mishne Torah (Fragment), Cluj-Napoca, Biblioteca Academiei Române, MS C.204, wrapper (https://fragmentarium.ms/description/F-erdx) (last date accessed 17th August 2025)

Belea, Miruna; Papahagi, Adrian. MS C.137 (https://www.hebrewmanuscript.com/bwb-database/notice/7a30a927d8c6bf9f1b2f1c4e75b554b2.htm) (last date accessed: 07th October 2025)

Belea, Miruna; Papahagi, Adrian. MS C. 204 (https://www.hebrewmanuscript.com/bwb-database/notice/3b9ed4de1f4bf3f2444229f171786324.htm) (last date accessed: 22nd October 2025)

See variant of text edited on sefaria.org: Moses Maimonides, Mishne Torah - The Laws on Leavened and Unleavened Bread 7.1-4. Online: https://www.sefaria.org/Mishneh_Torah%2C_Leavened_and_Unleavened_Bread.7?lang=bi (last date accessed: 17th August 2025)