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Or 5975

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Or 5975
Title:
Rashi's commentary on Berakhot and Shabat
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
136 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5975 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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Names:
Eliyahu of Keriko
Joseph Schlesinger
Rashi, 1040-1105
Rashi, 1040-1105
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 5975

Rashi's commentary on Berakhot and Shabat

Contents

The commentary of Rashi on Berakhot and Shabat.

Language(s): Hebrew, Aramaic

ff. 1r-136v
Title: Perush Rashi
Title: פירוש רש"י
Author: Rashi, 1040-1105 שלמה בן יצחק (רש"י), 1040-1105

The manuscript breaks off on folio 142v of the standard printed edition.

There are additions under the title Hidush at the end of the 7th chapter of Shabat (folio 87r), and also at the end of the 9th chapter (folio 98r).

ff. 1r-37r
Title: Berakhot
ff. 37r-136v
Title: Shabat

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 136 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 308 × 225 mm.
Dimensions (written): 220 × 145 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Originally quires of 10 leaves each. Incomplete at the end.

Condition

Imperfect at the end.

First leaf mutilated.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 38

Written lines: 38

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Flesh side and hair side distingushable.

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

Catchwords on every verso.

Additions in smaller characters and marginal notes found throughout the manuscript.

Censor's erasures, e.g. folio 117v.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

Additions:

A note in Italian, describing the manuscript, is pasted on the flyleaf at the end of the manuscript, folio [138v].

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine title: 'Solomon Yitshaki. Commentary on Tractates Berakhoth & Shabboth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 5975.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Eliyahu of Keriko: inscribed, folio 36r.

Joseph Schlesinger: purchased from him by the British Museum on 30 March 1901: inscribed, back flyleaf (iii)v.

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_5975 (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. 409.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL