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Tag: yosef rosh ha-seder
19 records found
Book list written by Yosef b. Ya'aqov Rosh Haseder. Published by Alloni, the Jewish LIbrary p. 396
Fragment written by Yosef b. Ya'aqov Rosh Haseder, containing various materials written on different palces on the page. We can find a list of books that he himself planed to write, Bible and Talmud commentaries. AA
Query addressed to R. Yosef 'the Rav' concerning a case of inheritance. Headed by the unusual בשמ רחמ וחנינא. Involves several brothers, one minor. Quite damaged. (Information from Goitein's index cards.)
Colophon. "I copied this, Yosef Rosh ha-Seder b. Yaʿaqov Rosh Bei Rabanan (ZL), from the copy of the author (ZL), for myself, and I did not add to it except the text ... light...."
Beginning of a calligraphic letter in Hebrew rhymed prose by Shemuel ha-Levi b. Eli, the gaʾon ("head of the academy of the diaspora") in Baghdad (1164–93). Gil identified this as his handwriting, but Amir Ashur and Marina Rustow believe this to be the very distinctive hand of his disciple R. Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder of Irbil. (Information from Gil, from Goitein's index cards and from Marina Rustow)
Legal query, draft. In the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel. Addressed to Yosef Rosh ha-Seder. The page is crossed out. A man gives half a house (which actually belongs to his wife) as pledge for a debt of 8 dinars, and after the man dies the creditor demands the money from the widow. The same case is probably described in Moss. VIII,403 and several other fragments: see Friedman's article for complete discussion.
Verso: Draft of a letter (or letters) in the hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov ha-Bavli that mentions Shelomo ha-Kohen Segan ha-Kohanim. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 5:271, 582) EMS
Recto: unidentified text, mentions miqra neviʾin. Verso: list of books. The hand of Yosef Rosh Haseder? AA
Small fragment from a legal query sent to Hai Gaon from Qabis, copied by Yosef Rosh Haseder. Parallel to Levin, Ginzei Qedem, 1, p. 1 (from Bodl. MS Heb. d.46, fol. 6). AA
Commentary entitled פירוש מכתב לרבנות, in the hand of Joseph b. Jacob ha-Bavli.
Responsum. Small fragment with the opening verses of a Geonic responsa, copied by Yosef Rosh Haseder. AA
Copies of various texts written by Yosef Rosh ha-seder, including Maimonides responsum no. 138 and more.
Codification of Jewish law, by the hand of Joseph Rosh Ha-Seder, mentioned by Scheiber and Abramson.
Also a responsum by Maimonides to Efraim from Tyre (See Blau, Responsa, III, p. 156)
beginning of a proclamation of the Exilarch Daniel, mentioning the so-called Gaon Samuel b. Eli; written, according to Scheiber, by Joseph Rosh Ha-Seder (data from FGP)
Book list written by Yosef Rosh Haseder. See Alloni, The Jewish Library, no. 100 (the shelf mark given there is TS NS 298.3, and should be corrected)
Monograph; rules concerning marriage. All written by Joseph Rosh Ha-Seder
Halakhic monograph written by Yosef Rosh ha-Seder. See joins in FGP.
Book list written by Yosef Rosh Haseder. Published by Aloni under shelfmark TS NS 94.126
Epistle of the gaon Shemuel b. ʿEli of Baghdad. There is a colophon. This copy was completed Tishrei [1]473 Seleucid, which is 1161 CE. "In it [this copy] there is a shahāda of R. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen b. Yosef." There is an addendum dated Tammuz 1486(?) Seleucid (which would be 1175 CE if this is the correct reading), added in Aleppo. Joins with T-S 8J2 and ENA 4011.74.
