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recommendations  ḲONṬRES (; Levita punctuates ):  Usual
designation, among the Tosafists, of Rashi's commentary on the
Talmud. Rashi himself uses the expression once to designate a
written Talmudic interpretation by his "old teacher" (Jacob b.
Yaḳar on Giṭ. viii. 82a). In the commentary on Ta'an. 21b, a
"ḳonṭres of Rome" is mentioned, which elsewhere (commentary on
Ker. 5a) is called "perush [commentary] of Rome" (see Berliner,
"Beiträge zur Gesch. der Raschi-Commentare," p. 4). Rashi's
Bible commentary likewise is termed "ḳonṭres" by himself and by
his pupils (l.c. pp. 10, 19); in one place it is called (plural;
l.c. p. 11). The word does not designate the commentary itself,
but the note-book, or books, in which it was written. Rashi
himself, in explaining the Ta