Novellae to Talmud tractates Baba Metzia and Shavu’oth.

(CAIRO GENIZA)

(Spain?)

(14th century)

Bifolium, comprising four pages each written in two columns in a fine cursive Hebrew script in a Spanish hand, brown ink on vellum. Two lines in Latin on upper margin of fourth page (used as a binding); later marginal descriptive inscriptions in Italian and some Hebrew on first page; second page with Julius Bisno ownership label.

For provenance details, see previous lot. Text concerns the admission or denial of monetary claims and the obligation whether to to swear or not as discussed in the first chapter of Baba Metzia (Shenayim Ochazin) ff. 4-5 and the sixth chapter of Shavu’oth (Shevuath Hadayanin) ff. 38-40. Includes the Halachic differences between land and movable objects plus related topics. Contains much erudition on the topics discussed.