Early draft of the Mishneh Torah by Maimonides in his own hand

This is an early draft of the Mishneh Torah, for which the great Jewish scholar Maimonides is most famous today. A systematic compilation of oral law, it is complete with corrections, additions and deletions in his own, at times, illegible hand. Maimonides spent 10 years working on the text, while he lived in Cairo, codifying biblical and rabbinical law, and presenting it in a systematic, logical arrangement.