Fragment of a manuscript on parchment, Sefer Rossino on the Torah. Oriental script, [14th/15th century?].
Section of Sefer Rossino – commentary on the Torah by Rabbi Samuel of Rossino, a Torah scholar active in South Italy and the Byzantine Empire in the 11th and 12th centuries. The book survived in several early manuscripts and was first published only after some 850 years (Sefer Rushino, Jerusalem: Mossad HaRav Kook, 1977; edited by Rabbi Dr. Moshe Weiss).
R. Shmuel of Rossino was a leading Torah commentator, a contemporary of Rashi.
5 manuscript fragments. Size varies. Various degrees of damage. Part of the text is faded and illegible.
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