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Or 73

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Or 73
Title:
Rashi's commentary on Bava metsiʿa
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
138 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_73 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1192
End Date:
1192
Date Range:
1192
Calendar:
Seleucid
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Names:
Daṿid ben Shemu᾿el Rosh ha-Golah
Rashi, 1040-1105
Rashi, 1040-1105
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 73

Rashi's commentary on Bava metsiʿa

Contents

Rashi's commentary on Bava metsiʿa (a fragment).

Language(s): Aramaic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-138v
Title: Perush Bava metsiʿa
Title: פירוש בבא מציעא
Author: Rashi, 1040-1105 שלמה בן יצחק (רש"י)
Colophon: סליק בבא מצעא בעזרת רוכב שב[ע לאדונינו דוד ר[?א?ש הגולה: יתמד ש[ וכסאו לעד יכון סלה: וימלא לו כל [ ואיביו תחת רגליו להפילה: וגםי[ ניסן תק"א לשטרות: f. 138r

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 12th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 138 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 250 × 175 mm.
Foliation:

138 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Collation

14 quires and a single leaf: i-xiii10 (folios 1-129), xiv8 (folios 130-137) plus folio 138.

Quires marked with catchwords at the end.

Condition

Folios missing at the beginning and at the end.

Pages mutilated with loss of text.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 35

Written lines: 34

Uniform layout.

Pricking and ruling are visible.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of the 12th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Babha metsiʿa.T.B. Hebrew & Aramaic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 73.'

History

Origin: 1192 Iraq (Baghdad?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Daṿid ben Shemu᾿el Rosh ha-Golah: inscribed in the colophon, folio 138r.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_73 (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. 412.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL