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Or 8733

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032-003436758
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Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8733
Title:
Ḳitsur pisḳe ha-Rosh by Jacob ben Asher
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
180 folios (iv+180+v)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_8733 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
English
Hebrew
Italian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Darea Baroness Zouche
Jacob ben Asher, 1269-1340
Jacob ben Asher, 1269-1340
Lord Robert Curzon
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Or 8733

Ḳitsur pisḳe ha-Rosh by Jacob ben Asher

Contents

A digest of the halakhic decisions of Asher ben Jehiel by his son Jacob ben Asher.

Language(s): Hebrew, English, Italian

ff. 1r-180v
Author: יעקב בן אשר Jacob ben Asher, approximately 1269-approximately 1340
Title: קצור פסקי הרא"ש
Title: Ḳitsur pisḳe ha-Rosh

Includes only until before the end of Hilkhot Bekhorot. Arranged in an unusual order.

With numerous marginal notes most of which are from Hagahot Maimoniyot, Mordekhai, and compilations of Tur Oraḥ Ḥayim and Tur Even ha-ʿEzer.

F. 1v: responsum by Jacob ben Judah Weil (§84 in the printed version), ending with: פסק הלז העתקתי מגוף הפסק ששלח הר"י וויל לחבורת ברונסוויק ("this ruling was copied from the body text of a ruling that Jacob ben Judah Weil sent to the Brunswick group").

Incomplete at the end.

F. 67v: the name David (possibly the scribe) in acrostic.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th-16th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 180 folios (iv+180+v)
Dimensions (leaf): 295 × 225 mm.
Dimensions (written): 210 × 150 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Leaves of notes inserted at the beginning of the volume are called as front flyleaves (v)-(x) in the digital surrogate.

Collation

21 quires: i10 (ff. 1-10), ii-xiv8 (ff. 11-18, 19-26, 27-34, 35-42, 43-50, 51-58, 59-66, 67-74, 75-82, 83-90, 91-98, 99-106, 107-114, 115-122), xv10-1 (ff. 123-131), xvi8 (ff. 132-139), xvii8 (ff. 140-148) xviii-xxi8 (ff. 149-156, 157-164, 165-172, 173-180).

Catchwords at the end of the quires.

Condition

Usage stains.

Parchment is rather worn.

Parchment is not very good quality: with several holes, amended cuts, tears (e.g. ff. 47, 67, 72, 126, 137, 153). If in textblock, text goes around them.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 32

Written lines: 32

Ruling and pricking are visible.

Section headings are in larger square script.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive and square script of the 15th-16th century.

Decoration

Additions:

6 larger paper leaves are inserted before f. 1. They are called as front flyleaves in the digital surrogate. Front flyleaves (v)-(x): Italian text to be read from left to right about the Talmud. It begins: 'Informacion cercha il volume Ebreo dito il Talmud' English note added in the margins of the Italian and on the verso side of the last leaf (called front flyleaf (v)v).

Binding

Post-1600, white leather binding. Boxed.

Title on spine: 'Asher b. Jechiel. Kissūr Piṣḳē Hārōsh. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 8733.'

History

Origin: 1400-1599 15th-16th century

Provenance and Acquisition

F. 1r: יודא בן מהר"ר(?) עקיבה.

Date 5080 AM (1319/1320 CE) Toledo(?) is given on f. 1r: טולידא ה" אלפים פ' לפ"ג.

Purchase note on front flyleaf (iv)v: 'Cabalistic treatise on the Talmud, written A.D. 1306. Bought at Pest, from a Jewish bookseller, who had a stock of about 5000 hebrew books. I gave 3 Spanish dollars for it. June 11. 1838.'

It belonged to Lord Robert Curzon's collection, which was bequeathed to the British Museum; acquisition note on back flyleaf (ii)v: 'Bequeathed by Darea Baroness Zouche. 13. Oct. 1917.' Date of accession 21 May 1921.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and volume IV of Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977).

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_8733 (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), vol. IV. p. 155.

Funding of Cataloguing

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