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032-003367061
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Add MS 17049
Title:
Isaac Alfasi's commentary on some tractates of the Talmud
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
234 folios
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1394
End Date:
1394
Date Range:
1394
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CE
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Names:
Alfasi, Isaac ben Jacob, 1013-1103,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/34806748
Alfasi, Isaac ben Jacob, 1013-1103,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/34806748
Camillo Jaghel
Fra Giro[lamo] de Durazzano de Predi
Laurentius Franguellus
Meir ben Baruch of Rothenburg
Mosheh ben Yosef
Renatus a Mutina
Shemayah
Shemu᾿el de Modena
Thomas Rodd the younger
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Add MS 17049

Isaac Alfasi's commentary on some tractates of the Talmud

Contents

Summary of Contents: Isaac Alfasi's commentary on some tractates of the Talmud. Contains the commentary of Rashi and additional glosses from Tosafot, Mordekhai and others on the margins.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-234v
Title: Perush ha-Ri"f
Title: פירוש הרי"ף
Author: Alfasi, Isaac ben Jacob, 1013-1103 צחק בן יעקב, אלפסי, 1013-1103

At the end there is a series of teshuvot on Seder nashim and some disquisitions on the tractate Ḥulin.

Colophon: אני שמעיה כתבתי זה הסדר מועד להח"ר משה בן הח"ר יוסף בשנת קנ"ד לפרט לאלף הששי בכ"ח יום לר"ח תמוז השם יזכיהו להגות בו הוא וזרעו וזרע זרעו אא"א סלה. חזק. f. 210v
ff. 2r-33r
Title: Berakhot
ff. 33r-39v
Title: Ta῾anit
ff. 39v-50v
Title: Megilah
ff. 50v-63r
Title: Yom ṭov
ff. 63r-69r
Title: Rosh ha-Shanah
ff. 69r-73v
Title: Yoma
ff. 73v-83r
Title: Sukah
ff. 83r-99v
Title: Pesaḥ rishon
ff. 99v-114v
Title: Mo῾ed ḳaṭan
ff. 114v-164r
Title: Shabat
ff. 164r-188r
Title: Ḥulin
ff. 188r-211r
Title: ῾Eruvin
ff. 211r-212v
Title: Hilkhot ṭum᾿ah
ff. 212v-214r
Title: Hilkhot Sefer Torah
ff. 214r-216r
Title: Hilkhot mezuzah
ff. 216r-219r
Title: Hilkhot tefilin

Written in a different hand than the rest of the manuscript.

ff. 219r-222r
Title: Hilkhot tsitsit

Written in the same hand as the preceding part.

ff. 222r-231v
Title: Teshuvot

Written in the same semi-cusive script as the marginal writing of the main portion of the manuscript.

Concern the tractates Yevamot, Ketuvot, Ḳidushin, and Giṭin. Subscriptions refer to various authors, but mainly to Meir ben Baruch of Rothenburg (b. 1215, d. 1293).

ff. 232r-233v
Title: Discussions and decisions on the tractate Ḥulin

These two leaves were previously bound with Add MS 17050 (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 47).

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 234 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 382 × 265 mm.
Dimensions (written): 300 × 215 mm.
Foliation:

234 folios (+ 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 older and 2 modern paper flyleaves at the end). Folio 1 is a paper flyleaf.

Collation

28 complete quires: i-xvi8 (folios 2-209), separate folio 210, xxvii-xviii6 (folios 219-230), folios 231-234 (additions).

Quires enumerated with Hebrew letters, cut away in the trimming.

Condition

Folios 1 and 9 largely illegible through damp.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 35

Written lines: 34

Uniform layout. Visible quire by quire pricking and page by page (brown) plummet ruling, also for the margins.

Commentary in a small semi-cursive script provided around the main text.

Last line of writing written within the ruling.

Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable.

Occasionally additional notes.

Repeated words at the beginning of columns.

Decorated horizontal catchwords.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive script of the 14th century. Shemayah: inscribed with his name in the colophon, folio 210v. Written for Mosheh ben Yosef: inscribed, folio 210.

ff. 216r-221v
written in a different hand than the rest of the manuscript.

Additions:

Folios 232-233 were previously bound with another volume (Add MS 17050).

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Alfasi Halakhot with Commentaries. Hebrew. Vol. I. Brit. Mus. Additional 17,049.'

History

Origin: 1394 Germany or Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Shemu᾿el de Modena, dated 1653, Verona: inscribed in a record of death: folio 234v.

Camillo Jaghel: inscribed with his name, 1613 (folio 231v); see [Popper_1969] 50-56.

Fra Giro[lamo] de Durazzano de Predi[?]: censor's signature and note 1640 (folio 231v). (Narkiss reads the name Durallano), on him see [Popper_1969] 89.

Laurentius Franguellus (fl. until 1596): inscribed with his name, 1575 (folios 231v, 233v); see [Popper_1969] 78, appendix § 105-110.

Renatus a Mutina: insribed with his name, 1621 (folio 231v).

Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849): purchased from him by the British Museum on 23 October 1847 (Macdonald's sale, lot 157): 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_17049 (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. 473.

Bibliography

    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark
    [Popper_1969] William Popper. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL