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Wikipedia's article "Tosafot", quoting the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia's:
The edited tosafot owe their existence particularly to Samson of Sens
and to the following French tosafists of the thirteenth century: (1)
Moses of Évreux, (2) Eliezer of Touques, and (3) Perez ben Elijah of
Corbeil.
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There is a sefer by Efraim Urbach called "Ba'alei HaTosafot" (in Hebrew) that discusses them and analyzes, Masechta by Masechta, who the anonymous authors might be.
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Malbim (to Lev. 4:2, sec. 191) argues for your option 1c: there are derashos in Sifra for all three of the cases that Tosafos mentions - being a zav/zavah, pledging erachin and performing semichah - that converts are included.
He explains at some length that indeed "bnei Yisrael" includes only born Jews. So mitzvos fall into several categories:
Those ...
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The Yam Shel Sh'lomo is the one who, disagreeing with Tosafos, distinguishes between adults and children playing ball on Yom Tov http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14086&st=&pgnum=22&hilite=:
אלא שחוק של ילדים שלא הגיעו לכלל חיוב הנח
The YS"S can arguably be interpreted to refer to children below the age of chinuch. There is a Tosafos ...
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According to this page, the author is unknown. However, earlier in the book (fn. 2), he says that it was first printed in Livorno 5543, if that helps you.
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חגיגה כא ע''א, מנחות כב ע''ב זבחים עא ע''א, יומא נו ע''א,נזיר לו ע''ב all have enormous תוספות.
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