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Record Id:
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Title:
Pisḳe ha-Rosh
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
265 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27557 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1355
End Date:
1355
Date Range:
1355
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Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Asher ben Jehiel, 1250-1327
Asher ben Jehiel, 1250-1327
Samuel Schönblum
Yehudah
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Add MS 27557

Pisḳe ha-Rosh

Contents

Halakhic decisions of Asher ben Jeḥiel, aka Rosh, with several teshuvot of the same author prefixed.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

ff. 5r-265v
Title: Pisḳe ha-Rosh
Title: פסקי הרא"ש
Author: Asher ben Jeḥiel, approximately 1250-1327 אשר בן יחיאל
Colophon: נשלמה ביום ח"י לחדש טבת בשנת מאה וחמש עשרה לאלף הששי אל התלמיד החשוב ר' יהודה וסימן לדבר ויהודה "יעלה. f. 80v
Colophon: נשלמו פסקי בבא מציעא ב טליטלה יום עשרה לחדש שבט בשנת מאה וחמש עשרה לפרט האלף הששי לנכבד ר' יהודה ברצון שו[?כני?] סנ"ה ויקיים בו מקראי דכתיבי לא ימוש ספר התורה מפיך והגית בו יומם ולילה. f. 194r
ff. 2r-5r
Title: Teshuvot

Not an autograph of Asher ben Jeḥiel, but a copy of original documents made about the same date as the bulk of the manuscript.

ff. 5r-81r
Title: Bava ḳama
ff. 81r-195r
Title: Bava metsiʿa
ff. 195r-265v
Title: Bava batra

Breaks off in the middle of the 7th chapter.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 265 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 252 × 169 mm.
Dimensions (written): 200 × 118 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Indeterminable.

Condition

Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.

Largely worm-eaten.

Several leaves damaged.

Writing on many folios has been effaced by damp.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 31

Written lines: 31

Has decorated horizontal quire catchwords. Words are repeated at the beginning of folios.

Ruling with hard-point visible. Ruled leaf by leaf on verso.

Uniform layout, last line of text written outside ruling.

Initial words and titles marked.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive script, unpunctuated, of the 14th century. Yehudah: inscribed in the colophons, folios 80v, 194r.

ff. 195r-265v
due to a different contemporary hand.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Asher ben Jechiel. Pesakim on Baba Kamma, Etc. A.D. 1355. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27, 557.'

History

Origin: 1355 Spain (Toledo)

Provenance and Acquisition

Samuel Schönblum of Vienna: purchased from him on 08 December 1866: 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=Add_MS_27557 (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. 541.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL