[Judeo-Arabic commentary on Alfasi Bava kamma V, (89-93; 98-100)] : manuscript.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

• Alfasi, Isaac ben Jacob, 1013-1103. Bava kamma V--Selections.
• Talmud. Bava kamma 47a-50a--Commentaries--Early works to 1800.
• Talmud.

Genre:

• Commentaries.

Penn Provenance:

• Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
• Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
• Amram.

Physical Description:

• 2 fols. : consecutive, complete; slight damage; lower half of 1v blank
• Paper 16.4 X 12.7 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: columns: 1 lines: 16-19 (1r, 2r,v); 7 (1v).

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Other Title:

Judeo-Arabic commentary on Bava kamma 47a-50a

Place of Publication:

[Orient], [publisher not identified], [12th century-13th century?]

Language Note:

Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew.

Notes:

• Fol. 1 starts with the end of an article on Bava kamma 47a, in Alfasi item no. 89 (20b l. 23). The writing ends at the end of the article on Mishnah V 2, in the upper third of fol. 1b.
• Fol. 2 resumes, presumably after a missing folio, with Mishnah V 4 (48b in Talmud, 21b l. 1 in Alfasi, item no. 98), and continues through the Talmudic extrapolation on Mishnah V 5 (49b. in Alfasi ibid ll. 42, item no. 100). The rest is empty.
• The empty space on fol. 2b may indicate that this is a fragment from a draft.
• The text is divided into articles that start with the lead phrase of the Mishnah (even as the Mishnah is not the subject of the article). The text is mostly a simplified restatement of the Talmudic text, with a few narrative phrases and translations in Judeo-Arabic.
• Only material which appears in Alfasi is brought here, apparently the intention of the author is to use the Talmudic information collected by Alfasi, to extrapolate on the Mishnah.
• This structure and style are typical of the Alfasi glosses composed in the circle of Maimonides' pupils, such as Ishmʾael ben ha-Khemon and Ḥanaʾnel ben Shemuel, in which the subject is Alfasi, but the text is structured around the Mishnah, employing Alfasi as a supplement for Mishnah study.
• Compare to the fragments of one such gloss on Alfasi Bava kama, found in British Library Or. 5563f (Published by Levin, Ginze Kedem, vol. V (1934), pp. 141-144; Otsar ha-geʾonim Bava kamma p. 117) and seven more folios of that same autograph draft, Cambridge TS F9, 11. See ben Benedict, Kiryat Sefer, vol. XXVIII (1952-53), pp. 214-218.
• Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

• Halper, no. 110
• IMHM, no. F38399

OCLC:

249589199