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Title:
Babylonian Talmud (fragments)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
102 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1200
End Date:
1299
Date Range:
1200-1299
Era:
CE
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Names:
Joseph Leves
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Add MS 25717

Babylonian Talmud (fragments)

Contents

Fragments of the Babylonian Talmud.

Language(s): Jewish Babalonia Aramaic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-102v
Title: Talmud bavli
Title: תלמוד בבלי

The Mishnah of each chapter is given in its entirety  before Gemara begins, as in Harley MS 5508 and Or 5530.

The manuscript is, unlike Harley MS 5508, exceedingly well written. The marginal notes, in a later cursive hand, represent an attempt at comparing the printed edition with the manuscript.

According to Margoliouth, it was written in "a good square character of the Greek style, verging a little towards the Rabbinic hand", and he dates it to the end of the 13th - beginning of the 14th century.

Filiation: Cf. London, British Library, Harley MS 5508 and Or 5530, 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), nos. 399 and 400.
ff. 1r-44r
Title: Bekhorot

From 8b to 61b. The greater portion of the first chapter is missing.

ff. 44v-72v
Title: ‘Arakhin

From 2a to 11b, from 12b to 26b, and from 28b to 34a. The two missing leaves after folio 66 contained a small portion of the 7th chapter and a larger portion of the 8th.

ff. 72v-102v
Title: Keritot

These folios are not included into the Sussmann catalogue.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 13th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 102 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 305 × 255 mm.
Dimensions (written): 235 × 185 mm.
Foliation:

102 folios (+ 3 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Collation

Ff. 1-101: 13 quires of originally 8 leaves each. One leaf is missing after f. 52, and two leaves are wanting after folio 66.

F. 102 begins a new quire, the subsequent leaves of which are currently missing.

About 1 quire is missing at the beginning.

Condition

Defective at the beginning and at the end.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 31

Written lines: 30

Each page on ff. 1-88 is divided into 2 columns of 30 lines each; on ff. 89-102 the page consists of a single column of 30 lines.

Visible pricking and hard-point regular ruling.

Flesh side and hair side distinguishable.

Many marginal notes supplied by a later cursive hand.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script of the end of the 13th century.

Binding

Post-1600. Blind-tooled brown leather. Modern BL box.

Spine title: Tractatus Talmudici. Tres. Hebr. Mus. Brit. Iure Empt. 25, 717.'

History

Origin: 1200-1299 13th century Germany?

Provenance and Acquisition

1864-07-09

Joseph Leves: purchased from him by the British Museum on 09 July 1864: 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_25717 (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. 402.

Bibliography

    Hachi Garsinan Project (https://bavli.genizah.org/)
    Th. Hirth, Der Mischnatraktat 'Keritot' nach Handschriften und Erstdrucken heraugegeben, übersetzt und kommentiert, Karl Eberhard Universität, Tübingen 1973 (Dissertation)
    זוסמן,יעקבן. ‏אוצר כתבי־היד התלמודיים. ירושלים :‏ ‏יד יצחק בן־צבי, 2011-2012. ע' 124, 1061.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL