Eliezer of Touques
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Eliezer of Touques was a French tosafist, who lived at Touques in the second half of the thirteenth century. He abridged the tosafot of Samson of Sens, Samuel of Évreux
Samuel of Évreux
Samuel of Évreux was a French tosafist of the thirteenth century, the younger brother and student of Moses of Évreux, author of the tosafot of Évreux. He is identified by Gross with Samuel ben Shneor Samuel of Évreux was a French tosafist of the thirteenth century, the younger brother and student...

, and many others, and added thereto marginal notes of his own, entitled "Gilyon Tosafot," or "Tosafot Gillayon". This abridgment, together with the notes, after undergoing many alterations and receiving several additions from later authorities, was called Tosafot Ṭuk; it forms the foundation of the Tosafot now printed with the Talmud.

Gershon Soncino, who printed Eliezer's tosafot for the first time, says in the preface to Ḳimḥi
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's Miklol edited by him (Constantinople, 1532-34) that he collected them in various places in France, especially in Chambéry
Chambéry
Chambéry is a city in the department of Savoie, located in the Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France.It is the capital of the department and has been the historical capital of the Savoy region since the 13th century, when Amadeus V of Savoy made the city his seat of power.-Geography:Chambéry...

, Savoy. Eliezer was also the author of a commentary on the Pentateuch, mentioned in a list of works appended to the manuscript of Ibn Janaḥ's Sefer ha-Riḳmah, now in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (No. 1216).

Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography

  • Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, ii., s.v. ;
  • Zunz, Z. G. p. 39;
  • Gross, Gallia Judaica, p. 209;
  • Rabbinowicz, Ma'amar'al Hadfasat ha-Talmud, p. 23, Munich, 1877;
  • Michael, Or ha-Ḥayyim, No. 424.
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