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Title:
Agadat ha-Talmud
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
140 folios
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Languages:
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Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
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CE
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Names:
Nicolas Mavrocordato
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Or 2419

Agadat ha-Talmud

Contents

Agadat ha-Talmud, a collection of hagadot occuring in the Talmud.

Language(s): Aramaic, Hebrew

ff. 1r-140v
Title: Agadat ha-Talmud
Title: אגדת התלמוד

Folios 1r-13v contain an index of the Biblical passages referred to in the body of the work. Probably two leaves are missing at the beginning.

Folio 13v contains a list of masekhtot referred to in the text.

Folios 14r-19v come from another collection of agadot from the tractate Berakhot.

The work proper begins on folio 20r.

Berakhot here is treated as a part of Seder Mo῾ed; the tractate Shabat follows Berakhot as part of the same Seder.

Seder Nashim begins on folio 63r, Seder Yeshu῾ot (Neziḳin) on folio 86r, and Seder Ḳodashim on folio 130r.

Seder Ṭoharot is, in the present condition of the manuscript, not represented at all.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 140 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 266 × 170 mm.
Foliation:

140 folios (+ 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Original quiring not established due to modern restoration (all leaves stuck on paper).

Condition

Several folios slightly damaged.

Defective at the beginning and at the end.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 40 63

Written lines: 40 63

Uniform layout.

Chapter titles written in larger characters.

Catchwords on every verso.

Running titles.

Hand(s)

Yemenite square and semi-cursive script of the 17th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Green cover.

Spine title: 'Aggadhath Hat-Talmud. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental Ms. 2,419.'

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century Yemen

Provenance and Acquisition

Nicolas Mavrocordato: purchased by the British Museum from him on 08 October 1881: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)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_2419 (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. 406.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL