Description of British Library, Add MS 17049: Perush ha-Ri"f (פירוש הרי"ף) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library 2020-09-30 2020-09-30 These images and the content of British Library Add MS 17049: Perush ha-Ri"f (פירוש הרי"ף) are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, British Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about British Library Add MS 17049: Perush ha-Ri"f (פירוש הרי"ף). This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. Folios 1 and 9 largely illegible through damp. Folios 232-233 were previously bound with another volume (Add. 17050). Shemu᾿el de Modena, dated 1653, Verona: inscribed in a record of death: folio 234v. Camillo Jaghel: inscribed with his name, 1613 (folio 231v); see 50-56. Fra Giro[lamo] de Durazzano de Predi[?]: censor's signature and note 1640 (folio 231v). (Narkiss reads the name Durallano), on him see 89. Laurentius Franguellus (fl. until 1596): inscribed with his name, 1575 (folios 231v, 233v); see 78, appendix § 105-110. Renatus a Mutina: insribed with his name, 1621 (folio 231v). Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965. United Kingdom London British Library Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project Add MS 17049 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_17049 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Isaac Alfasi's commentary on some tractates of the Talmud. Contains the commentary of Rashi and additional glosses from Tosafot, Mordekhai and others on the margins. Hebrew Perush ha-Ri"f (פירוש הרי"ף) 2r Berakhot 33r Ta῾anit 39v Megilah 50v Yom ṭov 63r Rosh ha-Shanah 69r Yoma 73v Sukah 83r Pesaḥ rishon 99v Mo῾ed ḳaṭan 114v Shabat 164r Ḥulin 188r ῾Eruvin 211r Hilkhot ṭum᾿ah 212v Hilkhot Sefer Torah 214r Hilkhot mezuzah 216r Hilkhot tefilin 219r Hilkhot tsitsit 222r Teshuvot 232r Discussions and decisions on the tractate Ḥulin

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 234 folios; 234 folios Columns: 2; ruled lines: 35; written lines: 34; Uniform layout. Visible quire by quire pricking and page by page (brown) plummet ruling, also for the margins. Commentary in a small semi-cursive script provided around the main text. Last line of writing written within the ruling. Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable. Occasionally additional notes. Repeated words at the beginning of columns. Decorated horizontal catchwords. Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive script of the 14th century. Shemayah: inscribed with his name in the colophon, folio 210v. Written for Mosheh ben Yosef: inscribed, folio 210.

BM in-house. Spine title: 'Alfasi Halakhot with Commentaries. Hebrew. Vol. I. Brit. Mus. Additional 17,049.'

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GermanyItaly Acquisition: Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849): purchased from him by the British Museum on 23 October 1847 (Macdonald's sale, lot 157): inscribed, [235v].