Description of British Library, Add MS 19786: Contains Novellae on the tractate Soṭah by Abraham ibn Musa. contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library 2023-02-01 2023-02-01 These images and the content of British Library Add MS 19786: Contains Novellae on the tractate Soṭah by Abraham ibn Musa. 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 19786: Contains Novellae on the tractate Soṭah by Abraham ibn Musa.. 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. Water-damaged. Margins slightly injured. 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 19786 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_19786 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Contains Novellae on the tractate Soṭah by Abraham ibn Musa. Hebrew; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (ca. 200-1200 CE) Contains Novellae on the tractate Soṭah by Abraham ibn Musa.

Paper

 184 folios; 184 folios Hebrew foliation in the left-hand upper corner of each recto, written by a later hand. Columns: 1; ruled lines: 36 55; written lines: 36 55; Catchwords on every verso. Reference to the talmudic source in each section written in larger characters. Oriental semi-cursive script in various hands of the 18th century.

BM in-house. Marbled cover. Boxed. Spine title: 'Abraham ben Musa. Comment. in Tract. Sotah. Hebrew. A.D. 1368. Brit. Mus. Iure Emptionis 19,786.'

Between 1700 and 1799

 Acquisition: M. Aschkenazi: purchased from him by the British Museum through D. Nutt on 13 May 1854: inscribed, folio [139v].