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Or 43
Title:
Ḥidushim
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Extent:
260 folios
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Languages:
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Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
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CE
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Names:
Gerondi, Jonah ben Abraham, rabbi and moralist, d 1264
Gerondi, Jonah ben Abraham, rabbi and moralist, d 1264
Joseph Schönblum
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Or 43

Ḥidushim

Contents

Contains Novellae on the tractate Bava batra.

Language(s): Hebrew, Aramaic

ff. 1r-260v
Title: Ḥidushim
Title: חדושים

The authorship is uncertain, [Herschler_1965] attributes the work to Jonah ben Abraham Gerondi. The author quotes several rabbinic authorities, including Shemu᾿el ben Hofni, Asher ben Meshulam, Shelomoh ben Avraham of Montpellier or Maimonides.

Author: Jonah ben Abraham Gerondi, approximately 1200-1263 יונה בן אברהם, גרונדי

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 260 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 290 × 200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 225 × 145 mm.
Foliation:

260 folios (+ 3 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 6 leaves each.

Condition

Stained.

Many of the pages more or less injured.

Ink fading on many of the versos.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 32

Written lines: 32

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

Chapter initials given in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Sefardi (North-African?) semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Aaron hal-Levi. Comm. on Baba Bathra. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 43.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Africa, N.

Provenance and Acquisition

Joseph Schönblum: purchased from him by the British Museum on 25 May 1867: 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

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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. 429.

Bibliography

    [Herschler_1965] Gerondi, approximately Jonah ben Abraham, and החסיד מגירונדא יונה בן אברהם. 'ʿAliyot De-Rabenu Yonah : ʿal Bava Batra / Le-Rabenu Yonah Ben Avraham He-Ḥasid Mi-Gironda ; Tsiyunim, Heʿarot u-Veʾurim Me-et Mosheh Hershler.'Yotse le-or Ba-Paʿam ha-1. mi-tokh Kitve yad..; יוצא לאור בפעם ה1. מתוך כתבי יד.. Yerushalayim: Mekhon ha-Talmud ha-Yiśreʾeli ha-shalem-750 ie1965 or 1966-1989 or 1990, ירושלים, 1965.

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