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[Fragment from Alfasi's Sefer ha-Halakhot to Masekhet Eruvin].
[קטע מהלכות אלפסי למסכת ערובין].
Library at the Katz Center - Rare Book Manuscript CAJS Rar Ms 630
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Alfasi, Isaac ben Jacob, 1013-1103.
- Language:
- Aramaic
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Talmud. Eruvin--11th century--Commentaries.
- Talmud.
- Jews--France, Northern--13th century--History--Sources.
- Jews.
- Jews--France, Northern--14th century--History--Sources.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, Medieval.
- Manuscripts, European.
- fragments (object portions)
- Penn Provenance:
- Manuscript inscribed "Folio 5743a" in pencil (f. 2r) and pastel (f. f. 1r).
- Formerly owned by Marvin L. Colker, cataloger of manuscripts at Trinity College Dublin and professor of classics at the University of Virgina (former call number MLC 016); purchased by Colker from Bernard M. Rosenthal in 1977 (Christie's).
- Sold by Christie's London, Online auction 21173 (November 28, 2022) as part of the collection of Marvin L. Colker.
- Contemporary inscription at lower right f.2r (originally lower right recto): "הש' יזכיני לראו' בני' עוסקי' בתור[ה]" (may God allow my witnessing of sons occupied in Torah study).
- Physical Description:
- 2 leaves : parchment ; 245 x 340 mm (f. 1) ; 175 x 330 mm (f.2)
- Place of Publication:
- [Northern France?], [1250?-1350?].
- [אשכנז-צרפת?], [1250?-1350?].
- Language Note:
- Hebrew and Aramaic.
- Summary:
- This is a manuscript fragment of Alfasi's Halakhot from Masekhet Eruvin, surviving in two leaves although originally one folio leaf (approximately 415 x 335 mm, based on the division of text in both the preserved and stripped portions; the folio was cut to fit a binding, with the center surviving in strips; the bottom of the stripped portion has separated from the top of the current f. 2). The text begins near the beginning of the first chapter, with במבוי עקום כחנניה ואליב' דב[ית] ה[לל] והילכת' כתרוייהו (f. 1r), continuing until ואחר כך מת אחד מהן כי מעיקרא (what originally was the end of the folio side; f. 2r); the verso of the original folio began with לא חיישינן לזה שמת (f. 1v) and continues until ולא בעי כוס | הדרן (the verso contained the text of the end of the first chapter (מבוי), and the complete second (עושין פסין) and third (בכל מערבין) chapters (f. 1v,2v). The manuscript contains many textual variants to the standard editions.
- Notes:
- Ms. fragment.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Layout: Written in two columns, of which 51 lines survive; chapter indicators written in margins (f. 2v); frame-ruled in drypoint (faintly visible on rectos).
- Script: Written in an Ashkenazic-Northern French semicursive script.
- Origin: Written likely in Northern France, between 1250-1350.
- Correspondence between Colker, Israel M. Ta-Shma and Malachi Beit-Arié at the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, Jerusalem, dated 12 December 1980, is housed in the curatorial file.
- Handwritten correspondence between Colker and Colette Sirat (undated), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Recherche et D'Historie des Textes, Paris, is housed in the curatorial file.
- Cited as:
- Fragment from Alfasi's Sefer ha-Halakhot to Masekhet Eruvin. (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 630). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
- OCLC:
- 1377667996
- Access Restriction:
- Access to this item is subject to staff review (housed in flat lying box under Island 2).
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