Tanchum b. Moses of Beaucaire

תנחום בן משה מבלקיירי

1425

Regarding the scribe, see Colette Sirat, Hebrew Manuscripts of the Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 256.

Beaucaire is a town in France. Documents attest to the existence of a Jewish community in Beaucaire in the 12th century. See G. Saige, Les Juifs du Languedoc (1881); Steinschneider, Uebersetzungen, 171, 217, 666; Gross, Gallia Judaica, 119–21; Kahn, in: REJ, 65 (1913), 181–95; 66 (1913), 75–97; G. Caro, Social- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte der Juden, 1 (1924), 386–90, 510; Z. Szajkowski, Franco-Judaica (1962), index.

Incomplete, in the colophon, the scribe Tanḥum ben Mosheh of Beaucaire mentions six works. Another part of the original manuscript is in Paris, BnF (MS hèbr. 923).