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Add MS 18685
Title:
Collection of halakhical works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
265 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1350
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1350-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Dueren, Isaac ben Meïr, rabbi, scholar and Talmudic authority, fl 2nd half of the 13th century
Isaac ben Joseph, fl 13th century
Isaac ben Joseph, fl 13th century
M. Asher
Samson ben Zadok, 1240-1312
Samson ben Zadok, 1240-1312
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Add MS 18685

Collection of halakhical works

Contents

Summary of Contents: Sefer mitsṿot ḳaṭan of Isaac of Corbeil, Tashbets of Shimshon ben Tsadoḳ, She῾are Dura and Hilkhot nidah of Isaac Dueren.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1v-184r
Title: Sefer mitsṿot ḳaṭan
Title: ספר מצות קטן

The number of paragraphs in the body of the work is 315; the index contains 340 simanim.

An epistle is appended before the index, folio 177v-178r.

Author: Isaac ben Joseph, of Corbeil, active 13th century יצחק בן יוסף, מקורביל
ff. 184r-235r
Title: Tashbets
Title: תשב"ץ
Author: Samson ben Zadok, -1312 שמשון בן צדוק

The number of paragraphs in both the body of the work and the index is 463. The index precedes the work itself.

The hagahot are aritten in smaller characters, but are embodied in the columns of text. They are signed 'morenu rabi Perets' or 'Roḳeaḥ.'

ff. 235v-258r
Title: Sha῾are Dura
Title: שערי דורא
Author: Dueren, Isaac ben Meir, active 13th century יצחק בן מאיר, מדורא

The index to the work is given on folio 264r.

References

[Shaare_Dura_1547]
ff. 258r-264v
Title: Hilkhot nidah
Title: הלכות נדה
Author: Dueren, Isaac ben Meir, active 13th century יצחק בן מאיר, מדורא

Contains 25 sections.

Colophon: חזק ונתחזק שמשון בר' אלעזרהסופר: סיימתי הספר: שבח לאשכל הכפר: ועונותינו יכפר: ועצת אויבינו יפר: f. 264v

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Extent: 265 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 245 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

265 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf and 2 unfoliated vellum flyleaves at the beginning and at the end). Folio 265 is an old vellum flyleaf.

Collation

33 quires of 8 leaves each, marked by catchwords at the end.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 31

Written lines: 30

Uniform layout. Visible pricking and complete ruling with a plummet.

Hair-side and flesh-side of the folios indistinguishable. Visible scraping.

Last line written inside the ruling.

Initial words given in larger square characters.

Catchwords enclosed in pen and ink designs.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive script of the latter part of the 14th century.

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600. Dark brown leather. Boxed.

Spine title: 'Isaac of Corbeil. Sepher Ham-Mitsvoth Katan. Samson ben Zadok: Tashbes. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 18,685.'

History

Origin: 1350-1399 2nd half of the 14th century Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

A note on the local liturgical custom, in Hebrew, dated 5153 (1393), Trier.

M. Asher: purchased from him by the British Museum on 24 May 1851: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.

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

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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. 513.

Bibliography

    [Shaare_Dura_1547] Dueren, active 13th century Isaac ben Meir. 'Sefer Shaʻare Dura : Ha-Niḳra Isur Ṿe-Heter / ... Ṿe-ʿod Nitṿasef Ḥidushi. Be-Hagahot Yeshanot Ṿe-Gam Ḥadashot.'וויניציא, שח, Venice, 1547.

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