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Title:
Novellae on Tractate Betsah by Menaḥem ben Salomon Meiri
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Extent:
173 folios
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1400
End Date:
1499
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Names:
Joseph Schönblum
Meiri, Menahem ben Solomon, 1249-1306,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/69813099,
Meiri, Menahem ben Solomon, 1249-1306,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/69813099,
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Or 44

Novellae on Tractate Betsah by Menaḥem ben Salomon Meiri

Contents

Novellae of Menaḥem ben Salomon Meiri on the tractate Betsah.

Language(s): Hebrew, Aramaic

ff. 1r-173v
Title: Ḥidushim
Title: חדושים
Author: Meiri, Menahem ben Solomon, 1249-1306 המאירי, מנחם בן שלמה

Folio 1r contains a fragmentary introductionof which the larger part is reproduced in the printed edition.

References

[Meiri_1858]

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 173 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 202 × 130 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

173 folios (+ 1 modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 4 leaves each, marked with a catchword at the end of a new quire.

Condition

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 27

Written lines: 27

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso, written within the last line of the text.

Intial word in each chapter given in larger square characters.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

f. 8r - the name David, probably of the scribe, is marked off in the initial letters of the lines.

Additions:

Folio173v preserves notes showing that the present manuscript was at some point exchanged for a work of Shelomoh ibn Adret. The names of Yonah Shabtai and Shemu'el ben Shelomoh Ashkenazi are inscribed within these notes.

Folio 173v contains a talmudical comment in a Sefardi cursive script of the 16th to 17th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Menachem Meiri. Comm. on Betsah. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 44.'

History

Origin: 15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

1867-05-25

Joseph Schonblum: purchased from him by the British Museum on 25 May 1867: inscribed, folio [175v].

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_44 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 432.

Bibliography

    [Meiri_1858] Menahem ben Solomon Meiri, and מנחם בן שלמה מאירי. 'Ḥidushe Ha-Rav Meʾiri : ʿal Masekhet Betsah / Le-Rabenu Menaḥem Ha-Meiri.'Berlin 1858, בערלין, תרי״ט, 1858.

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