Thread by @hchesner

To celebrate the completion of the Shas cycle, I’m going to (mostly re)tweet the many examples of Talmudim @Columbialib.

I’ll start with one of my favorites, which doesn’t include Rashi and Tosafot because... 🥁 ...they weren't born yet. (Dated to roughly 10th century)

https://twitter.com/culhebrewmss/status/1163465660283772928

@columbialib This one doesn't have commentaries either, and is known as the "Columbia Talmud" to Talmud scholars. It is an early Yemenite version, with significant differences from the printed text. We have Betsah, Pesahim, Megillah, Moe'd Katan, and Zevahim in 2 v.

https://twitter.com/CULHebrewMss/status/1200142335062863872?s=20

A quick note on this: I had a BY high school come to visit a couple of years ago, & showed them this manuscript. A girl came over afterward, and thanked me for showing her this volume: "I'm Yemenite, and I've never heard my background being described as important in this way."😭

Bomberg Megilla (2nd ed):

https://twitter.com/hchesner/status/1105458732643901441?s=20

19th c. commentary on Talmud by Rephael Kazin of Aleppo.

https://twitter.com/CULHebrewMss/status/1010537980023341057?s=20

Okay, this one isn't Columbia's, it's @LibraryArchives, but the illustrations are FABULOUS:

https://twitter.com/hchesner/status/1077594393174003712?s=20

@LibraryArchives Was JUST talking about Rambam's commentary on the Talmud. Here's RH (the only piece we have - that we know of at this point):

https://twitter.com/CULHebrewMss/status/978647849188540418?s=20

@LibraryArchives Brief thread with more info:

https://twitter.com/hchesner/status/978783325400780800?s=20

@LibraryArchives A @Footprints_Heb on a Talmud:

https://twitter.com/hchesner/status/710828187299614721?s=20

@LibraryArchives @Footprints_Heb Selections from Seder Kodashim with Shita Mekubetset written in the margins (also Bomberg)

@LibraryArchives @Footprints_Heb Fragment from Shabbat (11th century)

@LibraryArchives @Footprints_Heb Apparently we have a Masters' Essay from 1931 called "Magic in the Talmud" by one Theodore Friedman: clio.columbia.edu/catalog/4310277

@LibraryArchives @Footprints_Heb "A commentary on the Talmud tractic Ḥulin by M.Ḥ (unknown) one of the students or the rabbis in a Thessaloniki Yeshivah."
clio.columbia.edu/catalog/7704808

@LibraryArchives @Footprints_Heb Hidushim on Nedarim by one Shelomoh Kluger: clio.columbia.edu/catalog/8557456
(Sorry about the digitization from microfilm - if someone would like to order a color copy; we'd then make that one available online :) )

R. S. Kluger on seder Kodashim as well as Gittin and Pesahim, and on the Mishnah, tractates Berakhot and Sukkah. In addition, the text contains a commentary on Yitsḥaḳ Nuneś Shaʻar ha-Melekh. Besides these, the Ms. includes a eulogy to Yosef Shuv.
clio.columbia.edu/catalog/7927146

Collection of proverbs from the Talmud (in alphabetical order), 18th century: clio.columbia.edu/catalog/7927175

Berakhot (ready to start again?), fragment, Italy 16th century: clio.columbia.edu/catalog/7518842

Commentaries on Shevuʻot, Arakhin, and Makkot: clio.columbia.edu/catalog/7362653

[Makes note to look at that incredible binding 😍]

Another Masters' essay, this one by Solomon Zusha Prokesch: "A Study on Ethics in the Talmud," 1901: clio.columbia.edu/catalog/4291017

(This was clearly supervised by Richard James Horatio Gottheil, Professor of Rabbinic Literature at Columbia)

[Ḥidushim ʻal piskaʼot meha-Talmud] [manuscript] : Yevamot, Rosh ha-Shanah, Shabbat, Ḥagigah, Megillah, Pesaḥim ve-Niddah. (17th century)

Includes a Ketubat Yibum
clio.columbia.edu/catalog/7927102

Hidushim on Bezah, Rosh Ha-Shanah, Yoma, Shabbat, Berakhot, Bava Kamma, Bava Meziʻa and Ḥullin.
clio.columbia.edu/catalog/7745648
(Another intriguing binding)

I should also add: If there are images here, either black and white or color, the entire manuscript is probably available online - either via KTIV or Columbia's Hebrew manuscripts site on the Internet Archive. Happy to provide full links to either.