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Title

Shulḥan 'Arukh me-Ṭur ...
[שלחן ערוך מטור ...]

Authors

• Karo, Joseph ben Ephraim, 1488-1575
  קארו, יוסף בן אפרים
• Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 479
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977353945803681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1083671517

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew, with two words in Judeo-Arabic (f. 78r)

Origin

Date

17--?

Place

North Africa

Summary

This is a manuscript of the Shulḥan 'Arukh written in North Africa likely during the eighteenth century. It is incomplete; it begins on siman (chapter) 55 se'if (paragraph) 8, and completes the Oraḥ Ḥayyim portion, after which the Ḥoshen Mishpaṭ portion begins, complete until siman 400 se'if 3. For Oraḥ Ḥayyim, the center of the double-column is headed with the current topic of the set of simanim (e.g. Hilkhot xxx...) with a notation on the upper margin about which day of the thirty-day cycle of the Shulḥan 'Arukh completion is below; the move to the next day is marked in the outer margin. Noteworthy marginalia through the volume: "קרובץ ... ואחרים פי' נוטריקון ק'ול ר'נה ו'ישועה ב'אהלי צ'דיקים" (Ḳrovets [prayer], (explained) ... others explain it as an abbreviation for (Psalms 118:15), 'ḳ'ol r'inah v'e-yeshu'ah b'e-ahalei ts'adiḳim), explanation from Bet Yosef to Oraḥ Ḥayyim 68:1, perhaps attesting to the scribe being‏ learned (f. 9r); where the text (Orah Hayyim 439:3) should read כגון המורייס, 'ke-gon ha-moriyyas', translated 'like brine', the scribe inserted כגון המיזרים, 'ke-gon "ha-mizrim", employing a specifically North-African Arabic term derived from مزر, 'mizr', a beverage made from millet or barley (f. 78r); on the same page, marginalia related to Oraḥ Ḥayyim 67:2, writing פ' אלמשר, fī al-masār, or "on the road" in Arabic, referring to the case of a traveler unable to perform Bediḳat ḥamets (f. 78r); multiple 'perushim', or explanations to matters being discussed in the text (f. 204v); a marginalia with an asterisk like a carved amethyst, noting another opinion from the Shulḥan 'Arukh's sources from the Sefer he-'Arukh about the species of beast called "ברדלס", 'Bardelos' (over Shulḥan 'Arukh Ḥoshen Mishpaṭ 303:6, f. 211r). Repairs throughout; some with waste from printed Hebrew books, some with other waste paper; f. 103r has a pasted repair with the text written on it by a Sofer. Roller marks from the paper creation on f. 34; stains from the top-down affecting text throughout the manuscript.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Pressed plant discovered in the manuscript on 1-24-2019 between folios 154 and 155; laid-in with a custom envelope inside the front board.
   

Extent

227 leaves : 300 x 190 (250 x 155) mm bound to 315 x 210 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii (modern paper) + 227 + ii (modern paper); modern foliation in pencil, 1-227, lower left recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Boards with cheap leather spine and corners; faded striped endbands, likely late 19th century.

Layout

Written in two columns of 34 lines for volume one, and 40-42 lines for volume two; all with indents.

Script

Written in a wide Eastern/North African script (from beginning until the last folio of Shulhan 'Arukh Oraḥ Ḥayyim, f. 1r-114v); a similar but thinner script on a slightly different paper (last folio of Oraḥ Ḥayyim, f.115r-115v); and in a meticulous Eastern/North African script with dramatic bold headers (for Shulḥan 'Arukh Ḥoshen ha-Mishpaṭ, f.116r-227v). Each section of the manuscript is written in multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Kestenbaum & Company, auction 76 (June 14, 2018), lot 318.
   

Subjects topical

• Jewish law--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--18th century

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