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Or 852

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Or 852
Title:
Perush Bava ḳama
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
150 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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Material Type:
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Names:
A. Lipschütz
Abraham ben David, of Posquieres, c 1125-1198
Abraham ben David, of Posquieres, c 1125-1198
Yeshayah Yosef
Ḥanana᾿el bar Shemu᾿el
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 852

Perush Bava ḳama

Contents

The commentary of Abraham ben David of Posquières on Bava ḳama.

Language(s): Hebrew, Aramaic

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 13th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 150 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 258 × 165 mm.
Dimensions (written): 190 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

150 folios (+ 1 modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Collation

i9: folios 1-9 (incomplete, the first leaf cancelled); ii10: folios 10-19, iii9: folios 20-28 (one leaf lost); iv-xiv10: folios 29-138; xv14-2: folios 139-150 (last two leaves lost).

Catchwords at the end of the quires as well as the enumeration in Hebrew letters at the beginning nearly entirely preserved.

Condition

Imperfect at the beginning and at end.

Some leaves damaged.

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 24

Written lines: 24

Uniform layout.

Chapter titles and initial words of sections written in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Oriental (Syrian) semi-cursive script of the 13th century.

Additions:

Folio 1r has a title written twice in two later hands.

Folio 1r contains some Talmudical rules written in a small Italian cursive script.

Binding

Post-1600. Black buckram, blind tooled.

Spine title: 'Abr. Ben David. Comm. on Baba Kamma. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 852.'

History

Origin: 1200-1299 13th century Syria(?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Ḥanana᾿el bar Shemu᾿el: inscribed, folio 1r.

Yeshayah Yosef: inscribed in a note, which states that the manuscript was left as a deposit in the house of Mosheh Daṿid: folio 1r.

A. Lipschütz: purchased from him by the British Museum on 13 March 1869: inscribed, back flyleaf (ii)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=Or_852 (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. 414.

Funding of Cataloguing

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