Beschreibung:

ABRAHAM BEN BARUCH, of Rothenburg (d. 1298; brother of Meir of Rothenburg [MAHARAM]). Sefer Sinai (halakhic work), with Sussman of Krems' abbreviation of the Kitsur Issur ve-Hetter of Isaac ben Meir of Dueren. MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Ashkenaz], copied by three different scribes for Avigdor ben Eliezer, completed on Friday 5 Av 5151 (= 1391) On vellum with equalized sides, no distinction between hair and flesh sides, traces of shaving, with numerous natural holes and original stitchings, many leaves have narrower margins where smaller sheets of vellum were used. 235 leaves: 1-27 8 28 1 0 29 8 (+ 1 before 1), lacking the final leaf. Modern lead pencil foliation, ending on fol. 145r a later Hebrew hand added running numbers to the columns, later Hebrew numbering of quires in the folds. Dark brown ink. Various Ashkenazic semi-cursive hands, some square script. With numerous older marginal annotations. (Cropped, with loss of catchwords from quire 25 onward, fols. 1-10 with defects and old repairs not affecting text, except fol. 1 cut and torn and inlaid to size in the nineteenth century, fols. 2 and 3 with loss of text in the upper corner of the inner margin, fol. 235 defective with loss of some 40 of the text, otherwise lightly stained and soiled, but generally in very good condition.) Modern blind and gold-tooled dark red morocco binding, two modern paper flyleaves at back and front, one additional older paper flyleaf at the front. With printed approbation (see below) bound at the end of the manuscript (frayed and stained, no loss of text). The manuscript was copied by three different hands. The first scribe, who copied fols. 1r-37r, col. 2, l. 3, pointed out his name, Hisda, on fols. 11v, 25r, 29v and 33v. The second scribe, Joseph, copied fols. 37r, col. 2, l. 4-198r and pointed out his name in the text several times (fols. 42r, 90r, 112v, 132r, 136v, 186r); on fol. 144v he pointed out both the names Joseph and Simhah, suggesting that his full name may have been Joseph ben Simhah. Asher ben David, the scribe who completed the manuscript and copied fols. 198v-235v, added a colophon on fol. 232r in which he recorded the name of the commissioner of the manuscript, Avigdor ben Eliezer, and the date the copy was completed, Friday, 5 Av 5151 (= 1391). The scribes use slightly different semi-cursive scripts, different decorations of catchwords, different space filling techniques, different numbers of lines per page, different pricking and ruling techniques and different para-textual signs. Scribe A (fols. 1r-37r, col. 2, l. 3): Measurements of fol. 12v: 350 x 270 mm; text space: 283 x 168 mm; upper margin: 12 mm, lower margin: 65 mm, inner margin: 38 mm, outer margin: 64 mm. 2 columns, column width right-hand column: 70 mm, column width left-hand column: 72 mm. 46 lines; ten lines: 62 mm. Usually single catchwords at the end of quires, in the bottom margin, in the size of the text letter, decorated with a simple penstroke above, written vertically between the double inner marginal lines. Single prickings in inner and outer margins, applied through the rectos of the folded quire; ruling by plummet on rectos and versos. Filling the line is achieved by dilation of letters, or by anticipation of the next word, indicated by a sign above the letters, which were usually not finished ('broken letters'); protruding lines occur only rarely. Scribe B (fols. 37r, col. 2, l.4-198r): Measurements of fol. 92v: 363 x 276 mm; text space: 287 x 170 mm; upper margin: 28 mm, lower margin: 48 mm, inner margin: 45 mm, outer margin, 61 mm. 2 columns, column width right-hand column: 75 mm, column width left-hand column: 79 mm. 48 lines; ten lines 58 mm. Single catchwords at the end of quires, in the size of the text letter, decorated with simple pen strokes around the word, written horizontally within the inner marginal lines. Single and double prickings, either in the outer margins only or in both inner and outer margins, applied through either the rec