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[Fragment from a parchment codex of the Talmud, Tractate Bava batra].
[קטע מתלמוד בבלי, מסכת בבא בתרא].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts CAJS Rar Ms 779
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Talmud. Bava batra
- תלמוד. בבא בתרא.
- Language:
- Aramaic
- Hebrew
- Genre:
- extracts (partial documents)
- Manuscripts, Medieval.
- parchment.
- Manuscripts.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Kedem Auctions (Jerusalem), Auction 102 (5 June 2025) lot 36 (as part of the collection of Victor Klagsbald).
- Physical Description:
- 1 leaf : parchment ; 280 x 170 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [Germany], [1200?-1250?]
- Language Note:
- Hebrew and Aramaic.
- Summary:
- Fragment of a parchment codex of the Talmud, Tractate Bava batra (corresponding to the sixth and seventh chapters in the printed edition); on recto, column 1: "[תא שמ]ע היכי משכחין להו נגעי ...עבדי אלא מעמיק", until "רב ששת בריה דרב אידי אבניפלי" (corresponding to 101b-102b) and column 2: [from Mishnah Bava batra 7:2] "מחזיר לו את הקרקע ולא את הרובע בלבד הוא מחזיר..." until "מה סלעין דלאו בני זריעה נינהו אם הכא נמי לאו" (102b-103a); on verso, column 1: "ליפות כוחו של [...] [אמ]רינן ליפות כחו של לוקח לא אמרינן..." until "עשר זהובים לשנה מדינר זהב לחודש ובא מעשה" (corresponding to 104b-105a) and column 2: "כשום הדיינין [...] ולטעמיך [...] קתני אלא כשום הדיינים...", until "רבא א[מר] בטלה מחלוקת קסבר" (corresponding to 105b-106a); there are many variants present from the printed edition.
- Notes:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Layout: Written in two colums, of which survive 25 (recto) and 27 lines (verso); columns (vertical bounding lines) blind-ruled on verso.
- Script: Written in an early 13th century Ashkenazic square script.
- Item cut, possibly to protect a book binding; worming at upper corners, some with later repairs. Housed in a modern cloth box.
- Note laid in manuscript box, with "fragment מס' בבא בתרא parchemin 13ᵗʰ s."; written by Malachi Beit-Arié (Klagsbald; Kedem).
- Cited in:
- KTIV, PH 5085
- Otsar kitve yad Talmudiyim, 8236
- Contains:
- Mishnah. Bava batra. Selections.
- Talmud. Bava batra. Selections.
- OCLC:
- 1528669629
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