Bodleian Library, MS. Huntington 200
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MS. Huntington 200
Bodleian Library (Oxford, United Kingdom)
Manuscript Book
Paper codex of a commentary on TB Baba Batra
Codicological Definition
Codex
Vertical rectangle
Single manuscript
Content Description
Talmud Commentary
- Hebrew
- Aramaic
R. Gershom Meor ha-Golah (identified by I. Ta-Shma) but contains additions by later authors
c. 960-1040 Metz and Mainz
פירושא דבבא בתרא
Commentary on Baba Batra
Thursday 18 Shvat 1590 Seleucids
2 February (Julian) 1279
The scribe made a mistake in writing the date in the colophon and corrected it, with the result that the last letter is unclear, it could be read as a tsade or a tet. The reading tsade is preferred because 18 Shvat fell on a Thursday in 1279.
Egypt or Syria
Based on palaeography
fol. 226r
איסתיים הדין פירושא דבבא בתרא בחמשה בשבה דהוא
תמנת עשר יומי בירח שבט דהיא שנת אתקץ לשטרות
וכתב יתיה עזרא בן נתנאל
לנפשיה סימן טוב עליו ועל
כלל עמו ישראל
Scribe: Ezra ben Nathanael
- Primitive critical apparatus: Collation with another manuscript
- Marginal glosses: They include corrections and collations
- Interlineations: corrections and collations
Physical Description
245 mm
165 mm
195-200 mm
119-124
226
Complete
The first folio of the manuscrit (fol. 2) was damaged, and the beginning of the text was restored by a clumsy hand and different ink.
Paper
- Brown (iron-gall)
- Black (carbon based)
1 V (2-11), 2 V–1 (12-20) 3 V (21-30) 4 III (31-36) 5 VI (37-48) 6 III–1 (49-53) 7 V (54-63) 8 V–1 (64-72) 9 - 24 V (73-226)
- Catchwords at the end of quires, position: in some quires
- Catchwords at the end of folios, position
- Signatures at the beginning of quires, position: In the upper inner corner of the first folio of the quire by Hebrew letters with one or three dots above
The folios in the first part of quires
Mastara
Grid of single vertical and horizontal lines
variable
Hebrew
Oriental
Non-Square (beinoni)
Current
Bookhand
Scholars'
6
Hand #1 of Item "MS. Huntington 200"
- Type: Main text scribe
- Observations:
test test
טקסט
- Marginal
- Interlinear
- Signes-de-renvoi
Manuscript History
Acquired in Aleppo by Robert Huntington in the 1680s
Bibliography
A. Epstein, “Der Gerschom Meor ha-Golah zugeschriebene Talmud-Kommentar”, in Festschrift zum achtzigsten geburtstage Moritz Steinschneider's, Harrassowitz, Leipzig, 1896, pp. 115-143.
I. Ta-Shma, “On the commentary of Rabbenu Gershom Meor ha-Golah to the Talmud” (Hebrew), Kiryat Sefer 53 (1978), pp. 356-367.
Y. M. Dubovick, « Fragments from the Commentary on Baba Batra, attributed to Rabbenu Gershom Meor ha-Golah” (Hebrew), Yeshurun 32 (2015), pp. 15-29.
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