
With Dr. Yakov Mayer discussing the first edition of the Talmud Yerushalmi
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What Is the Colophone?
The Latin manuscript was copied, written, and copied over in 1289. The colophone is a text that is traditionally found in the end of medieval manuscripts. It describes what he did and why and what for when,. How much he was paid, etc. And so we can even calculate how much time did it take to copy the whole thing. We know from certain signs that they didn't think that it will survive or that it should survive.
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