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Kelale ha-Talmud : muʻataḳim [mi-sefer] Shene luḥot ha-berit [me-et Yeshʿayah ben Avraham ha-Leṿi Horoṿits]. כללי התלמוד : מועתקים ‏[‏מספר‏]‏ שני לוחות הברית ‏[‏מאת ישעיה בן אברהם הלוי הורוויץ‏]‏. [Principles and methods of the Talmud copied, compiled and annotated by an anonymous author from the encyclopaedic work Shene luḥot ha-berit by Isaiah Horowitz].

Archive Judaica File: MS ROTH/315

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Kelale ha-Talmud : muʻataḳim [mi-sefer] Shene luḥot ha-berit [me-et Yeshʿayah ben Avraham ha-Leṿi Horoṿits]. כללי התלמוד : מועתקים ‏[‏מספר‏]‏ שני לוחות הברית ‏[‏מאת ישעיה בן אברהם הלוי הורוויץ‏]‏. [Principles and methods of the Talmud copied, compiled and annotated by an anonymous author from the encyclopaedic work Shene luḥot ha-berit by Isaiah Horowitz].

Level: File

Classmark: MS ROTH/315

Creator(s): Horowitz, Isaiah (1565-1630)(author)

Date(s): [18th century]

Language: Hebrew

Size and medium: 71 leaves : paper

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/115637

Description

Hebrew title supplied from damaged folio 1 (title page) and by cataloguer. English title supplied by cataloguer.


Variant titles:

Kelale ha-Talmud miha-Shelah. כללי התלמוד מהשל׳׳ה.

Shnei luhot ha-brit.


With hagahot (commentaries).


State of text: Incomplete; leaves at the end, and one leaf within text (after folio 52) are missing; upper left corners of folios 1–2A are missing with loss of text; trimmed margins with loss of text of some of the marginal glosses; pest damage; item underwent conservation work.


Bibliographical note:

Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 315.

National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 990001858870205171. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 315 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. 315.

Decoration

Title page is decorated with ornamented border (penwork); use of manicules; complex layout for hagahot on some pages.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: iii (i is paste-down) + 71 (foliated as 1–2, 2A[=3], 3[=4]–70[=71]) + vi (vi is paste-down); modern pencil foliation applied after loss of leaf, upper left recto; Hebrew foliation by the scribe runs from folio 1, foliated as א, consecutively to folio 52[=53] after this is continues with נה and runs up to folio 70 (foliated as עב); folio נד is missing.

Catchwords: horizontal, rectos and versos.

Number of lines: 27-33.

Number of columns: additional text block for hagahot on folios 6r, 7r, 9r, 10r, 24r, 39v, 51, 57v, 62r, 64r, 67r, 68, and 70.

Script: Mughrabi cursive Hebrew script.

Ms. codex: width 131mm height 176mm

Binding

Quarter leather bound, with yellow paper over boards; sewn over 3 cords; binding damaged. Held in a custom-made box covered with brown cloth.

Scribal information

Written by one professional hand.

Former owners and annotations

Annotations in the margins; likely by at least one additional hand.


Owner's note on upper corner of folio 1r: שלי אני הצעיר עהב ן' יהודא.


On cover of upper board: Rectangular paper label with "No 215 כללי התלמוד מהשל׳׳ה" inscribed in ink; right lower corner of upper board: Round paper label with "48" crossed out and "315" in pencil.


Roth’s description of MS Roth 315, cut out from a copy of his printed catalogue, is attached to front fly-leaf.

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