# Authoritative Rambam

**URL:** https://discourse.aishdas.org/t/authoritative-rambam/67898
**Category:** Avodah
**Created:** [November 9, 2026, 12:57pm UTC](https://discourse.aishdas.org/t/authoritative-rambam/67898 "2026-11-09T12:57:35Z")
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### Author: ![mberger](https://discourse.aishdas.org/user_avatar/discourse.aishdas.org/mberger/32/1460_2.png) [@mberger](https://discourse.aishdas.org/u/mberger)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2026, 12:57pm UTC](https://discourse.aishdas.org/t/authoritative-rambam/67898/1 "2026-11-09T12:57:35Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [Rambam’s Mishneh Torah: Printed Editions and Critical Edition Projects](https://discourse.aishdas.org/t/rambam-s-mishneh-torah-printed-editions-and-critical-edition-projects/67893):

There is the Boedelian Manuscript. which can be viewed at [Bodleian Library MS. Huntington 80](https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/60f5a5d4-8e17-457a-8280-0e0fdd43a1b6/). Although it only has Mada and Ahavah. But folio 165 recto (דף קס"ה ע"א) has this:

 ![image](https://discourse.aishdas.org/uploads/default/original/2X/a/a21ff3b0d947c9b6d1f446ab4b06d08f0baae00e.jpeg)

Look at that last line: הוגה מספרי. אני משה ברבי מימון זצ"ל (Corrected from my book. I am Moshe ben Rabbi Maimon zt"l (as his father had passed away by then)!!!

That’s pretty authoritative. And the Frankel edition used it as his primary source for those two _sefarim_. Although if it was far from the accepted text, they would put the original in a footnote.

There is an illuminated Renaissance manuscript by a _sofer_ named Gedalia in 1457 in Northern Italy. The first 5 _sefarim_ (Mada - Hafla’ah) are kept by the Vatican and can be seen at [DigiVatLib](https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.498) . The second volume (Zer’aim - Shofetim) is jointly held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (“the Met”) and the Israel Museum [DigiVatLib](https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.498)

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Famously, there is a beautiful R Chaim on Hil’ Shekhenim 4:2 where once you see Yemenite and early Spanish manuscripts was all based on a typo. Anyone who has the details – please fill them in.