• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

stol beþ imad for noht'. Embree and Urquhart 1991; Ross 1966; K0lbing 1884; Hardwick 1849. Codex Parchment 250 180 mm Collation as it survives today: 1-37 8 , 38 10 , 39-47 8 . Writing space varies depending on scribe,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

University of Birmingham, August 2003. With special thanks to Dr. Suzanne Reynolds, Holkham Hall for supplying information regarding: folio dimensions, collation, layout, decoration, binding, and acquisition. Related Manuscripts and other documents Scribal Scribe 1 of Holkham Hall 668 is also

• Initial-word panels decorated with pen-flourishing. The smaller one, ~shnei~ (two) is at the end of ~Hilkhot qinyan~, the chapter on purchase, and the bigger one is at the beginning of ~Hilkhot matanah~, the chapter on gifts., Fourth Book of ~Arba'ah Turim~: ~Hoshen ha-Mishpat~ ('The Breastplate of Judgment') on Civil Law and personal relations

(1360 CE).Folios 12, 13 and [320a] are blank. Catchwords; one of them (on f. 182v) does not fit the present collation, since this folio is presently the third leaf of quire xxiv^8^. 1 miniature and full foliate border (f. 14).

• Initial-word panel decorated with pen-flourishing spreading into the entire length of the folio framing the text column, at the beginning of ~Hilkhot nahalot~, the chapter on inheritance., Fourth Book of ~Arba'ah Turim~: ~Hoshen ha-Mishpat~ ('The Breastplate of Judgment') on Civil Law and personal relations

(1360 CE).Folios 12, 13 and [320a] are blank. Catchwords; one of them (on f. 182v) does not fit the present collation, since this folio is presently the third leaf of quire xxiv^8^. 1 miniature and full foliate border (f. 14).

• Initial-word panels decorated with pen-flourishing spreading into the entire length of the folio by text columns, at the beginning of ~Dinei ha-piqadon~, the chapter on depositing., Fourth Book of ~Arba'ah Turim~: ~Hoshen ha-Mishpat~ ('The Breastplate of Judgment') on Civil Law and personal relations

(1360 CE).Folios 12, 13 and [320a] are blank. Catchwords; one of them (on f. 182v) does not fit the present collation, since this folio is presently the third leaf of quire xxiv^8^. 1 miniature and full foliate border (f. 14).

• Detail: initial-word panels decorated with pen-flourishing. The smaller one, ~shnei~ (two) is at the end of ~Hilkhot qinyan~, the chapter on purchase, and the bigger one is at the beginning of ~Hilkhot matanah~, the chapter on gifts., Fourth Book of ~Arba'ah Turim~: ~Hoshen ha-Mishpat~ ('The Breastplate of Judgment') on Civil Law and personal relations

(1360 CE).Folios 12, 13 and [320a] are blank. Catchwords; one of them (on f. 182v) does not fit the present collation, since this folio is presently the third leaf of quire xxiv^8^. 1 miniature and full foliate border (f. 14).

• Detail: initial-word panel decorated with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of ~Hilkhot nahalot~, the chapter on inheritance., Fourth Book of ~Arba'ah Turim~: ~Hoshen ha-Mishpat~ ('The Breastplate of Judgment') on Civil Law and personal relations

(1360 CE).Folios 12, 13 and [320a] are blank. Catchwords; one of them (on f. 182v) does not fit the present collation, since this folio is presently the third leaf of quire xxiv^8^. 1 miniature and full foliate border (f. 14).

• Detail of a page: threefold miniature of a rabbinical court in the middle, a transaction involving money on the left, and an act of crime on the right. The miniature is flanked by the two initial words of the book, ~Rabban~ and ~Shimeon~. The three scenes of the miniature are connected to the content of the book which focuses on civil law discussing among others the institution of the rabbinical court, testimonies, loans, purchases, and different sorts of crimes. The scene in the middle depicts the smallest possible rabbinical court of three judges illustrating the first chapter on the rabbinical courts (~Hilkhot Sanhedrin~). The scene on the left depicts two men having a financial transaction: one of them is holding a purse and counting money into the hand of his fellow. The transaction is watched by three witnesses one of which has the contract in his hand. The scene on the right depicts a crime with a man hitting another man (with a stone?) illustrating the chapter on injuries (~Hilkhot hovel~). The text is surrounded by a full foliate border inhabited by a naked musician and an animal and a hybrid in its upper part, and with a blank coat of arms in its lower part., Fourth Book of ~Arba'ah Turim~: ~Hoshen ha-Mishpat~ ('The Breastplate of Judgment') on Civil Law and personal relations

(1360 CE).Folios 12, 13 and [320a] are blank. Catchwords; one of them (on f. 182v) does not fit the present collation, since this folio is presently the third leaf of quire xxiv^8^. 1 miniature and full foliate border (f. 14).

• Threefold miniature of a rabbinical court in the middle, a transaction involving money on the left, and an act of crime on the right. The miniature is flanked by the two initial words of the book, ~Rabban~ and ~Shimeon~. The three scenes of the miniature are connected to the content of the book which focuses on civil law discussing among others the institution of the rabbinical court, testimonies, loans, purchases, and different sorts of crimes. The scene in the middle depicts the smallest possible rabbinical court of three judges illustrating the first chapter on the rabbinical courts (~Hilkhot Sanhedrin~). The scene on the left depicts two men having a financial transaction: one of them is holding a purse and counting money into the hand of his fellow. The transaction is watched by three witnesses one of which has the contract in his hand. The scene on the right depicts a crime with a man hitting another man (with a stone?) illustrating the chapter on injuries (~Hilkhot hovel~). The text is surrounded by a full foliate border inhabited by a naked musician and an animal and a hybrid in its upper part, and with a blank coat of arms in its lower part., Fourth Book of ~Arba'ah Turim~: ~Hoshen ha-Mishpat~ ('The Breastplate of Judgment') on Civil Law and personal relations

(1360 CE).Folios 12, 13 and [320a] are blank. Catchwords; one of them (on f. 182v) does not fit the present collation, since this folio is presently the third leaf of quire xxiv^8^. 1 miniature and full foliate border (f. 14).

• Detail: threefold miniature of a rabbinical court in the middle, a transaction involving money on the left, and an act of crime on the right. The miniature is flanked by the two initial words of the book, ~Rabban~ and ~Shimeon~. The three scenes of the miniature are connected to the content of the book which focuses on civil law discussing among others the institution of the rabbinical court, testimonies, loans, purchases, and different sorts of crimes. The scene in the middle depicts the smallest possible rabbinical court of three judges illustrating the first chapter on the rabbinical courts (~Hilkhot Sanhedrin~). The scene on the left depicts two men having a financial transaction: one of them is holding a purse and counting money into the hand of his fellow. The transaction is watched by three witnesses one of which has the contract in his hand. The scene on the right depicts a crime with a man hitting another man (with a stone?) illustrating the chapter on injuries (~Hilkhot hovel~)., Fourth Book of ~Arba'ah Turim~: ~Hoshen ha-Mishpat~ ('The Breastplate of Judgment') on Civil Law and personal relations

(1360 CE).Folios 12, 13 and [320a] are blank. Catchwords; one of them (on f. 182v) does not fit the present collation, since this folio is presently the third leaf of quire xxiv^8^. 1 miniature and full foliate border (f. 14).