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ID: 199249
General information
Shelfmark Vat.ebr.296
Date Mid-15th century (before 1482)
Beginning date 1426
Ending date 1475
Overview Manuscript I (ff. 1-116)

Description
Locus 80r-90r
Other author Yehudah ben Mordekhai, sec. XV (internal)
Supplied title [מפתח של דקדוק]
Supplied title Mafteaḥ shel Dikduk
Summary Grammatical treatise preceded and followed by drafts of letter
Incipit text לשון הקדש נחלק לשלשה חלקי': פעולות שמות ומלות הדבק
General note This treatise was copied in several other manuscripts before the grammatical treatise by Samson ha-Nakdan "Sefer ha-Shimshoni" or "Ḥibbur ha-Konim".
General note According to I. Eldar, ספרות הדקדוק של יהדות אשכנז בימי־הביניים "Massorot", v-vi (1991), pp. 28-30, the author is Mordecai Yair who may be identified as Mordecai b. Hillel, the editor of "Sefer ha-Shimshoni" (cf. idem, "ibid.", p. 96).
General note On f. 80r a draft of a letter from a son to his father Mordecai אבי הר"ר מרדכי יצ"ו in which he expressed his desire to study grammar and asked his father for a loan in order to pay a scribe to copy this brief treatise כי בביתי אין לחם ואין שמלה ואין מעות לקנות מהם ספר מדקדוק הוכרחתי לשאול מאת אדו' ... למען אוכל לפרוע דמי הסופר לכתו' לי ספר קטן מדקדוק.
General note On f. 90r a draft of the beginning of a letter by Judah b. Mordecai to his brother, and it seems that Judah b. Mordecai was the original owner of this part of the manuscript.

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Shelfmark Vat.ebr.296
Other author/nameYehudah ben Mordekhai, sec. XV