Description of British Library, Add MS 17053: Tosafot Bava ḳama 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 17053: Tosafot Bava ḳama 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 17053: Tosafot Bava ḳama. 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. Some leaves damaged. Stained. Folio 200v contains a memorandum referring to an oath by which a certain person binds himself not to gamble; by the side of it on the margin is written: Li-zekhut Shimshon bar Mevorakh. Matatyah ben Rafa'el: inscribed, folio 30r. Shelomoh: mentioned in a note of sale of this manuscript to a certain Natan: inscribed, folio 165v. 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 17053 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_17053 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts The greater part of Tosafot on Bava ḳama, a small portion of the same on Bava metsi῾a, and a whole of that on Bava batra. Hebrew; Tosafot Bava ḳama 1r Tosafot Bava ḳama 46r [Tosafot Bava metsi῾a] 74r Tosafot Bava batra

Parchment

 201 folios; 201 folios Columns: 1; ruled lines: 40; written lines: 40; Uniform layuot. Ruling with a hard-point and pricking are visible. The last line of text is written inside the ruling. Hair side and flesh side of the folios are distinguishable. Between folio 1r-165v some of the pages are arranged into two columns. Folios 166r-201v have catchowords on every verso. Many marginal notes and additions. Two different Ashkenazi semi-cursive scripts of the 14th to 15th century.

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Tosaphoth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 17,053.'

Between 1300 and 1499

France Acquisition: Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849): purchased from him by the British Museum on 23 October 1847: MacDonald's sale, lot 161: inscribed, [202v].