Baʿal ha-ṭurim [ʿal ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah]. בעל הטורים [על חמשה חומשי תורה]. [Commentary on Pentateuch by Jacob Asheri].
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Title: Baʿal ha-ṭurim [ʿal ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah]. בעל הטורים [על חמשה חומשי תורה]. [Commentary on Pentateuch by Jacob Asheri].
Classmark: MS ROTH/516a
Creator(s): Jacob ben Asher (1269-1340)(commentator)
Date(s): [c 1590–1601]
Language: Hebrew
Size and medium: 67 leaves : paper
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/115680
Description
Hebrew title supplied from completion formula in folio 17v and by cataloguer. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 516a.
Variant titles:
Rosh ʿal ha-Torah. ראש על התורה.
Perush Baʿal ha-ṭurim ʿal ha-Torah. פרוש בעל הטורים על התורה.
Parshanut ha-Torah me-et Yaʿaḳov ben Asher. פרשנות התורה מאת יעקב בן אשר.
Folios 1r–68r of MS Roth 413et516a (on the whole codex, see main record).
Beginning of completion formula in folio 68r: נשלם מדרש חמשה חומשי תורה.
Introduction and commentary to Gen. 1:1–4 are missing; text starts with 2nd word of the commentary to Gen. 1:5: יום בגימ׳ זה יעקב אבינו.
Folios 19[=18]–22[=21] are written by a different hand on different paper; they were most likely taken from another manuscript and bound with the item at a later time to make up for loss; very little overlap of text in transition from folio 18 to bound-with part (folio 18v ends with the end of commentary of Ex. 3:15 (catchword פקד) and folio 19r commences in the middle of commentary of Ex. 3:14); little overlap also from end of bound-with part (folio 22v) to 23r.
State of text: Incomplete with beginning missing (see above); folios 19–22 are a bound-with (see above); very fragile and brittle; detached from binding with all sewing gone; inner margins and sometimes whole leaves are damaged by pests with loss of text; folio 41 is torn into several pieces; right corner of folio 42 is torn off (corner still with item); 54 has hole with loss of text; the microfilm of the NLI (see below Bibliographical note) shows the item in better condition.
Bibliographical note:
Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 516a.
National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 990001859490205171. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 516a 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. 516a.
Physical characteristics
Foliation: 17 (foliated as 1–11, 13[=12]–18[=17]) + 4 (bound-with; foliated as 19[=18]–22[=21]) + 46 (23[=22]–68[=67]); modern pencil foliation, upper left recto.
Catchwords: horizontal, rectos and versos.
Number of lines: 27–32.
Script: Yemenite Hebrew script.
Ms. component part: width 112mm height 180mm
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