[Leḥem ha-panim : ḥidushe dinim ʿal Shulḥan ʿarukh, Yoreh deʿah / she-liḳeṭ ha-aluf k.m. ha-r. R. Yitsḥak Leṿi Ṿali n.r.u.]. [לחם הפנים : חידושי דינים על שולחן ערוך, יורה דעה / שליקט האלוף כמהר׳׳ר יצחק לוי ואלי נר׳׳ו]. [Isaac Levi Valle’s commentary on dietary laws as codified by Joseph Karo].
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Type of record: Archive
Title: [Leḥem ha-panim : ḥidushe dinim ʿal Shulḥan ʿarukh, Yoreh deʿah / she-liḳeṭ ha-aluf k.m. ha-r. R. Yitsḥak Leṿi Ṿali n.r.u.]. [לחם הפנים : חידושי דינים על שולחן ערוך, יורה דעה / שליקט האלוף כמהר׳׳ר יצחק לוי ואלי נר׳׳ו]. [Isaac Levi Valle’s commentary on dietary laws as codified by Joseph Karo].
Classmark: MS ROTH/304
Creator(s): Karo, Joseph ben Ephraim (1488-1575)(author)
Date(s): [1620–1680]
Language: Hebrew
Size and medium: 45 leaves : paper
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/115626
Description
Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer partly derived from folio 6r. English title supplied by cataloguer.
Variant titles:
Perush Yoreh deʿah. פירוש יורה דעה.
Shulḥan ʿarukh: Yoreh deʿah, Parshanut. שלחן ערוך: יורה דעה, פרשנות.
Ḥidushim ʿal Shulḥan ʿarukh. חדושים על שלחן ערוך.
Heading (folio 6r): חידושי דינים שליקט האלוף כמהר׳׳ר יצחק לוי ואלי נר׳׳ו על ס׳ הש׳׳ע וקראו בשם לחם הפנים וסימניך ונתת על השלחן לחם פנים, חלק יורה דעה.
Date of production:
Isaac ha-Levi Valle of Verona died in 1680 (see Mortara, Indice alfabetico dei rabbini (Padua, 1886)); the honorific נטריה רחמנא ופרקיה after Valle’s name in the title of the manuscript (folio 6r) indicates that it was possibly written before his death.
Codicological characteristics:
The codex comprises 2 distinct codicological units written by 2 different hands on different paper in 2 slightly different layouts (folios: 1–24: 36 lines; folios 25–45: 24 lines); transition from first codicological unit to second (beginning with folio 25r) with some overlap of content.
Incomplete with leaves missing within and at end of text; some leaves are misbound (like folio 45 which should have followed folio 40).
Contents:
1. folios 1–8: Part of chapter 1 [הלכות שחיטה].
2. folios 9r–11r: Part of chapter 64 [הלכות חלב].
3. folios 11v–17r: Chapters 65–68 [הלכות דם].
4. folios 17r–34v: Chapters 69–77 [הלכות מליחה] (incomplete).
5. folio 35r–36r: Chapter 82 [הלכות עופות].
6. folio 36r–39r: Chapter 83 [הלכות דגים].
7. folios 39r–40, and 45: Chapter 84:1–84:8,37 [דין שרצים].
8. folios 41–44: Chapter 84:9,47 [דין שרצים]–chapter 86:5,20 [סימני ביצים ודיניהם].
State of text: Incomplete;iInk seepage; staining with loss of text; over-trimmed tail margins with loss of catchwords and some text; the item underwent extensive conservation work in the 1990s during which the item was rebound; the microfilm of MS Roth 304 made on behalf of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts of the NLI (see below Bibliographical note) shows that the beginning of the item’s collation used to be disarray before it was rebound.
Bibliographical note:
Roth, “Catalogue”, in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 304.
National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 990001858620205171. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 304 made on behalf of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts of the NLI during the 1960s. The microfilm can now be downloaded in a digitised form from the NLI-webpage.
Davis, Handlist 164 (Leeds, 2005), no. 304.
Physical characteristics
Foliation: iii (i is paste-down) + 45 + iii (iii is paste-down); modern pencil foliation, upper left recto.
Catchwords: horizontal, below every column; majority of catchwords is trimmed-off.
Number of lines: folios 1–24: generally 36; folios 25–45: generally 24.
Number of columns: 2
Script: Italian cursive Hebrew script.
Ms. composite codex: width 130mm height 165mm
Binding
Quarter blue leather with blue cloth over boards; spine is gilt-lettered with לחם הפנים and "M.S.".
Scribal information
Written in two different hands (folios 1–24, and 25–45).
Former owners and annotations
Roth’s ex-libris is attached to front paste-down; Roth’s description of MS Roth 202, cut out from a copy of his printed catalogue, is attached to front free end-paper verso.
Access and usage
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