Editing The Guide for the Perplexed (section)

== Manuscripts ==
The earliest complete Judeo-Arabic copy of Maimonides' ''Guide for the Perplexed'', copied in [[Yemen]] in 1380, was found in the [[India Office Records|India Office Library]] and added to the collection of the [[British Library]] in 1992.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Tahan |first=Ilana |title=The Hebrew Collection of the British Library: Past and Present |journal=European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe |volume= 41|issue= 2 |page= 49 |jstor=41443966 |date=2008 }}</ref> Another manuscript, copied in 1396 on vellum and written in Spanish cursive script, but discovered in Yemen by bibliophile, [[David Solomon Sassoon]], was formerly housed at the Sassoon Library in [[Letchworth]], England, but has since been acquired by the [[University of Toronto]]. The manuscript has an introduction written by Samuel ibn Tibbon, and is nearly complete, with the exception of a lacuna between two of its pages. Containing a total of 496 pages, written in two columns of 23 lines to a column, with 229 illuminations, the manuscript has been described by David Solomon Sassoon in his ''Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the Sassoon Library''.<ref>[[David Solomon Sassoon]], ''Ohel Dawid – Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the Sassoon Library, London'', vol. 2, Oxford University Press:London 1932, pp. 996–998, Ms. No. 1047; ibid. vol. 1, Preface, p. XI. The same manuscript had been in the possession of an Italian Jew in the fifteenth century.</ref> In the [[Bodleian Library]] at Oxford University, England, there are at least fifteen incomplete copies and fragments of the original Arabic text, all described by [[Adolf Neubauer]] in his ''Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts''. Two [[Leyden]] manuscripts (cod. 18 and 211) have also the original Arabic texts, as do various manuscripts of the ''Bibliothèque Nationale'' in Paris (No. 760, very old; 761 and 758, copied by Rabbi Saadia ibn Danan). A copy of the original Arabic text was also stored at the Berlin Royal Library (now [[Berlin State Library]]), under the category Ms. Or. Qu., 579 (105 in Catalogue of [[Moritz Steinschneider]]); it is defective in the beginning and at the end.<ref>''The Guide for the Perplexed'', by Moses Maimonides, M. Friedländer (ed.), 2nd edition, New York 1956, (Preface) p. xxviii {{ISBN|0486203514}}</ref> Hebrew translations of the Arabic texts, made by Samuel ibn Tibbon and [[Yehuda Alharizi]], albeit independently of each other, abound in university and state libraries.