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Add MS 17050

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Add MS 17050
Title:
Alfasi's commentary on the Mishnah
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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:
330 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1386
End Date:
1386
Date Range:
1386
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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
Gir[olamo] de Durallano
Mosheh Shapira
Renatus a Mutina
Shemayah
Thomas Rodd the younger
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 17050

Alfasi's commentary on the Mishnah

Contents

Alfasi's commentary on Seder nashim and Seder neziḳin.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-330v
Title: Perush mishnah
Title: פירוש משנה
Author: Alfasi, Isaac ben Jacob, 1013-1103 יצחק בן יעקב, אלפסי, 1013-1103

On the margins there is a commentary of Rashi and glosses of Tosafot, Mordekhai and others, embodying also some additions of Samuel ben Meir (Rashbam) to Alfasi on folios 13r, 25r, 61r, 114r, 119r.

Colophon: וסיימתי הפירוש והתוספות מהאלפסי ביום אחד עשר לחדש אייר שנת קמ"ו לפרט לאלף הששי. וכאשר שזכיתי לגומרה כן אזכה ללומדה ולשומרה. חזק. הסופר לא יוזק. f. 326r
ff. 1r-16v
Title: Ḳidushin
ff. 16v-56v
Title: Yevamot
ff. 56v-101r
Title: Ketubot
ff. 101r-126r
Title: Giṭin

The contents on folio 125 are written in a different handwriting.

ff. 126r-157v
Title: Bava ḳama
ff. 157v-216r
Title: Bava metsi῾a
ff. 216r-273r
Title: Bava batra
ff. 273r-288v
Title: ῾Avodah zarah
ff. 288v-303v
Title: Sanhedrin
ff. 303v-307v
Title: Makot
ff. 307v-326r
Title: Shevu῾ot

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Extent: 330 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 398 × 275 mm.
Dimensions (written): 280 × 220 mm.
Foliation:

330 folios (+ 3 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 older and 4 modern paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation

15 quires of 8 leaves each (folios 1-120), signed at the end with Hebrew letters (numbering continues from the previous volume, Add MS 17049).

25 quires of 8 leaves each (folios 126-325), signed at the end with Hebrew letters.

Folio 326 is a separate leaf and folio 327 is a paper flyleaf attached to the manuscript in 1610 or later.

Folios 328-330 belonged earlier to a different manuscript.

Condition

The lower section of folio 323 has been cut with loss of text.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 35

Written lines: 34

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

Repeated words at the beginning of the columns.

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.

Occasional additional notes.

Hand(s)

Sefardi square and Ashkenazi semi-cursive script of the 14th century. Shemayah: his name marked off on folio 19r and 105r, and marked off in acrostic on folio 41v and 236v.

Additions:

Folios 328-330: fragments of Pisḳe ha-Rosh; each page is divided into 3 columns with 48 lines to a column. Ashkenazi square script of porbably the 14th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Alfasi. Halakhoth with Commentaries. Hebrew. Vol. II. Brit. Mus. Additional 17,050.'

History

Origin: 1386 Italy?

Provenance and Acquisition

Folio 327: an Italian document (paper), dated Lugo, Febr. 16, 1610, by which permission was given to Salvator Salamon Ravena to transfer this manuscript to Modena. There are several names appearing in the document: L. Franguelli, inquisitore et riveditore; Fr. Agostino da Lugo, vicario di santo offizo di Lugo; Fr. Julius de Lugo, loco vicarii; Fr. Paulus, inquisitor Bonon.; Fr. Michael Angelus, inquisitor Mutinensis; Fr. Stephanus di Meldola, notarius inquisitorius Mutinensis (?).

Mosheh Shapira: inscribed (folio 126r), perhaps the same as Mosheh ben Yosef mentioned in the colophon on page 210v, volume 1, Add. 17049.

Camillo Jaghel: inscribed with his name, 1613 (folio 326v); see [Popper_1969] , appendix § 50-56.

Renatus a Mutina: inscribed with his name, 1621 (folio 326v).

Gir[olamo] de Durallano[de Predi?]: censor's signature and note 1640 (folio 326v) , on him see [Popper_1969] , appendix § 89.

1847-10-23

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 in volume 1 (Add MS 17049), back flyeaf (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_17050 (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. 474.

Bibliography

    [Popper_1969] William POPPER. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.

Funding of Cataloguing

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