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Add MS 16390 B

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032-003313824
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Add MS 16390 B
Title:
Kabbalistic miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
130 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Italian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Elias Levita
Thomas Rodd the younger
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 16390 B

Kabbalistic miscellany

Contents

Kabbalistic writings.

Language(s): Italian, Hebrew

ff. 1r-29v
Title: Sefer Raziel
Title: ספר רזיאל

Translations of extracts taken from 'Sode razaya' of Eleazar of Worms, by Elias Levita. Defective at the beginning.

Filiation: Cf. the contents of Add MS 27199.
ff. 30r-81r
Title: Sefer yetsirah
Title: ספר יצירה

Translations of Sefer yetsirah, with Eleazar of Worms commentary, by Elias Levita.

Filiation: Cf. the contents of Add MS 27199.
ff. 81r-129v
Title: Sefer ḥokhmat ha-nefesh
Title: ספר חכמת הנפש

Translations of extracts taken from Eleazar of Worms' 'Sefer ḥokhmat ha-nefesh.'

Filiation: Cf. the contents of Add MS 27199.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 130 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 135 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

130 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 9 at the end). Foliation runs FROM LEFT TO RIGHT. 9 back flyleaves are displayed as front flyleaves in the digital surrogate. Structure of the entire codex (Add MS 16390 A + Add MS 16390 B): iii + 59 + 130 + ix.

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Condition

Tidemarks at foredge and lower corner.

Worming at ends.

Blank leaves after folio 45.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 20 21

Written lines: 20 21

Uniform layout.

Marginal notes throughout.

Red edges.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script of the 16th century.

Binding

Bound together with Add MS 16390 A.

Post-1600. Brown leather, blind tooled.

Spine: 'Sefer Shebha Shemot, Etc. Brit. Mus. Add. Or. 16,390.'

History

Origin: 16th century ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849): purchased from him by the British Museum on 30 November 1846: inscribed, flyleaf (v)v.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_16390_B (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 1057.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL