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Add MS 19972

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032-003371868
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Add MS 19972
Title:
Sefer Mordekhai by Mordecai ben Hillel ha-Kohen
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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:
459 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19972 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1393
End Date:
1393
Date Range:
1393
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Natan Leṿi Adilkint
Solomon Netter
Ya῾aḳov ben Yosef Blan
Yosef of Orleans
ha-Kohen, Mordecai ben Hillel, 1240-1298
ha-Kohen, Mordecai ben Hillel, 1240-1298
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Add MS 19972

Sefer Mordekhai by Mordecai ben Hillel ha-Kohen

Contents

Mordekhai, i.e. the Talmudic expositions and decisions of Mordecai ben Hillel ha-Kohen Ashkenazi.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-459v
Title: Mordekhai
Title: מרדכי
Author: Mordecai ben Hillel, ha-Kohen, 1240?-1298 מרדכי בן הלל, אשכנזי, 1240?-1298
Colophon: אני יעקב ב[ר יו?]סף בלאן י"ץ כתבתי [ יעקב?] וסיימתי אותו בחדש אילול שנת קנ"ג לפ"ק המקום ברחמיו שיזכה לבנים זכרים שיהגו בו יומם ולילה הוא וזרעו וזרע זרעו עד סוף כל הדורות אא"ס. f. 459v

The recension approaches the Rhenish redaction and differs from the printed text.

ff. 2r-29v
Title: Bava ḳama
ff. 29v-64v
Title: Bava metsi῾a
ff. 64v-116r
Title: Bava batra
ff. 116r-126v
Title: Sanhedrin
ff. 126v-147r
Title: Shevu῾ot
ff. 147r-149v
Title: Nedarim
ff. 149v-151r
Title: Makot
ff. 151r-171r
Title: ῾Avodah zarah
ff. 171r-207v
Title: Ḥulin
ff. 207v-236r
Title: Shabat
ff. 236r-246r
Title: Pesaḥim
ff. 246r-261r
Title: ῾Eruvin
ff. 261r-270r
Title: Yom ṭov
ff. 270r-275v
Title: Rosh ha-shanah
ff. 275v-280v
Title: Yoma
ff. 280v-286r
Title: Sukah
ff. 286r-297v
Title: Megilah
ff. 297v-300v
Title: Ta῾anit
ff. 300v-304v
Title: Mo῾ed ḳaṭan
ff. 304v-318v
Title: Semahot
ff. 318v-335r
Title: Berakhot
ff. 335r-360r
Title: Yevamot
ff. 360r-391r
Title: Ketubot
ff. 391r-412r
Title: Ḳidushin
ff. 412r-427r
Title: Nidah
ff. 427r-459v
Title: Giṭin

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Extent: 459 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 239 × 161 mm.
Dimensions (written): 142 × 108 mm.
Foliation:

459 folios (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end). Folio 1 is a paper flyleaf.

Hebrew foliation in the upper left-hand corner of each recto.

Collation

Indeterminable.

Condition

Stained.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 37

Written lines: 36

Uniform layout. Division into paragraphs (by a later hand) until no. 285 (folio 63r).

Visible plummet ruling (each bifolium on both sides) and pricking.

Last line written within ruling.

Chapter initials given in larger square characters.

Running headings.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive script of the 14th century. Ya῾aḳov ben Yosef Blan: inscribed in the colophon (folio 459v).

Additions:

A description of the manuscript with a statement on the value of the text: folio 1v (paper flyleaf).

Binding

Post-1600. Black thick leather.

Spine title: 'Mordecai Ben Hillel. Talmudic Expositions & Decisions. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 19,972.'

History

Origin: 1393 France

Provenance and Acquisition

Folio 459r: a responsum of R. Yosef of Orleans on the subject of a divorce document.

Natan Leṿi Adilkint (?): inscribed, folio 2r.

Solomon Netter of Tiberias: bought from him by the British Museum on 14 October 1854: 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_19972 (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. 537.

Funding of Cataloguing

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