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Or 2705

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032-003375156
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Or 2705
Title:
Halakhic works of Jacob ben Moses of Bagnols
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
215 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2705 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Avraham
Jacob ben Moses of Bagnols
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
יעקב בן משה, מבניולש
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2705

Halakhic works of Jacob ben Moses of Bagnols

Contents

A collection of halakhic works of Jacob ben Moses of Bagnols.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-111r
Title: [Yeḥidim u-nevune dor]
Title: [יחידים ונבוני דור]
Author: Jacob ben Moses of Bagnols יעקב בן משה, מבניולש

The opening lines give the acrostic Ya῾aḳov bar Mosheh.

ff. 111r-197r
Title: ῾Ezrat nashim
Title: עזרת נשים
Author: Jacob ben Moses of Bagnols יעקב בן משה, מבניולש

In the form of the get, folio 145r, the date Tammuz 5121 (1361) is given.

ff. 197r-215v
Title: Yesod ha-hashgaḥah
Title: יסוד ההשגחה
Author: Jacob ben Moses of Bagnols יעקב בן משה, מבניולש

The date of composition is given as 1357.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 215 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 204 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

215 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Condition

Slightly water-damaged. Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 25

Written lines: 25

Uniform layout.

Occassional catchwords.

Initial word of each section written in larger characters.

Some marginal notes in contemporary handwriting.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive script of the 15th century. Avraham: his name marked off on folio 73r.

Additions:

Folio 1r supplied in the 17th century.

Folio 215 conatins a fragment of another work on sheḥitah, in the form of questions and answers.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Jacob of Bagnols. Pesakim. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2705.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century France

Provenance and Acquisition

1884-01-12

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), a antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 January 1884: inscribed (folio [216v]).

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=Or_2705 (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. 551.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL