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Add MS 17053

Record Id:
032-003367058
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Add MS 17053
Title:
Tosafot on Baba Kama and Baba Metsi'a
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
201 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_17053 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1300-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Matatyah ben Rafa'el
Shelomoh
Thomas Rodd the younger
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 17053

Tosafot on Baba Kama and Baba Metsi'a

Contents

Summary of Contents: The greater part of Tosafot on Bava ḳama, a small portion of the same on Bava metsi῾a, and a whole of that on Bava batra.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

ff. 1r-46r
Title: Tosafot Bava ḳama

Of chapter 6 there is only a portion (folios 40r-42r); of chapter 7 only 1 leaf (folio 45) is extant.

ff. 46r-74r
Title: [Tosafot Bava metsi῾a]

Only the glosses on the first two chapters are extant.

ff. 74r-201v
Title: Tosafot Bava batra

There is one glossa given by the scribe of the first and greater portion of the manuscript (folio 165r); the rest of the glosses were added by the second scribe.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th to 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 201 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 257 × 175 mm.
Dimensions (written): 192/190 × 115/122 mm.
Foliation:

201 folios (+ 3 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Catchwords at the end of the quires.

Condition

Some leaves damaged.

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 40

Written lines: 40

Uniform layuot.

Ruling with a hard-point and pricking are visible. The last line of text is written inside the ruling.

Hair side and flesh side of the folios are distinguishable.

Between folio 1r-165v some of the pages are arranged into two columns.

Folios 166r-201v have catchowords on every verso.

Many marginal notes and additions.

Hand(s)

Two different Ashkenazi semi-cursive scripts of the 14th to 15th century.

Ff. 166r-201v: written by a different but contemporary Ashkenazi hand.

Additions:

Folio 200v contains a memorandum referring to an oath by which a certain person binds himself not to gamble; by the side of it on the margin is written: Li-zekhut Shimshon bar Mevorakh.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Tosaphoth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 17,053.'

History

Origin: 1300-1499 14th-15th century France(?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Matatyah ben Rafa'el: inscribed, folio 30r.

Shelomoh: mentioned in a note of sale of this manuscript to a certain Natan: inscribed, folio 165v.

Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849): purchased from him by the British Museum on 23 October 1847: MacDonald's sale, lot 161: 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

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_17053 (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. 416.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL