English: Sefer ha-Middot (retitled Orhot Zaddikim in its printed versions) is a medieval Hebrew ethical work by an anonymous author. This is one of the earliest extant manuscripts of the book, completed by the scribe in 1501, and is currently held in the Biblioteca de San Lorenzo de El Escorial (manuscript number G-III-11/2). This manuscript is being utilized in the production of a corrected edition of Orhot Zaddikim at Hebrew Wikisource, in which it is designated E (or ה).
תאריך יצירה
(רס"ב).
מקור
Personal scan; see this manuscript's full NLI bibliographical record here and its Ktiv entry here.
This scanned version of the manuscript has clear pagination, matching the somewhat hard-to-read pagination that was penned into the manuscript. The following is a Table of Contents to make navigating the manuscript easier. The folio on which each chapter starts is indicated, and the page number in the file is added in parenthesis:
3a (1) begins towards the end of the introduction (most of which is missing in the manuscript).
5a (4) שער הגאוה
9b (13) שער הענוה
13a (20) שער הבושת
15b (25) שער העזות
16a (26) שער האהבה
20a (34) שער השנאה
20b (35) שער הרחמים
21b (37) שער האכזריות
23b (41) שער השמחה
30b (55) שער הדאגה
31a (56) שער החרטה
32a (58) שער הכעס
34a (62) שער הרצון
35b (65) שער הקנאה
38a (70) שער הזריזות
39a (72) שער העצלות
40b (75) שער הנדיבות
42a (78) שער הציקנות
42b (79) שער הזכירה
47a (88) שער השכחה
48a (90) שער השתיקה
51b (97) שער השקר
54a (102) שער האמת
56a (106) שער החניפות
60a (114) שער לשון הרע
65b (125) שער התשובה
83a (160) שער התורה
87b-89a (169-172) שער יראת שמים. Several pages are missing from the book's final chapter (שער יראת שמים), which unfortunately include the majority of the chapter, and some of the extant pages are out-of-order in the current pagination. However, the manuscript nevertheless contains the final page of the book (88b, p. 171) showing the end of the last chapter (a text which is missing in every other extant manuscript).
רישיון
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יצירה זו נמצאת בנחלת הכלל במדינת המקור ובמדינות אחרות בהם תקופת זכויות היוצרים היא משך חיי היוצר ו-100 שנה (או פחות) מפטירתו.
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it was first published outside the United States (and not published in the U.S. within 30 days),
it was first published before 1 March 1989 without copyright notice or before 1964 without copyright renewal or before the source country established copyright relations with the United States,
it was in the public domain in its home country on the URAA date (January 1, 1996 for most countries).
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