Anybody want to buy a Semak?
For anybody who is in the market for a 15th c. MS of the Semak (Sefer Mitzvot Katan), there happens to be one for sale.
One of the most important codes of Hebrew ritual law of the entire Middle Ages written in the thirteenth century by a famous French codifier with glosses by his best-known disciple, extant in well over a hundred manuscripts mostly from France and the Rhineland, found today in many libraries, this copy has attractive layout and script and is signed by a known scribe of German origin who worked in Italy. Only a small fraction of the extant manuscripts are of Italian origin. Many sources for the code and its glosses are known only in manuscripts of this text, and there is still no modern study or critical edition.
October 15th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
From the Montefiore collection, #123 – this website has been selling several items from the auction of that venerable collection.
October 15th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Sorry – the identification of the manuscript is written towards the bottom.