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Add MS 17807

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032-003313827
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Add MS 17807
Title:
Collection of kabbalistic works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
45 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1300-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Adolphus Asher
Fluiters Casado, Rafael,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/21907299
Fluiters Casado, Rafael,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/21907299
Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, kabbalist and scholar, 1248-1325
Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, kabbalist and scholar, 1248-1325
Hai ben Sherira, Gaon, 0939-1038,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000010908435X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/63993515
Yitsḥaḳ
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 17807

Collection of kabbalistic works

Contents

Kabbalistic writings.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-12v
Title: Sha῾are orah
Title: שערי אורה

Fragments of chapter 5 and 10 only.

Author: Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham ג'קטילה, יוסף בן אברהם
ff. 13r-23v
Title: Igeret ha-ḳodesh
Title: אגרת הקדש
Author: Naḥmanides משה בן נחמן
ff. 24r-27v
Title: Ma᾿amarim be-ḳabalah
Title: מאמרים בקבלה
Incipit: האבות הן הן המרכבה. f. 27v
ff. 27v-31v
Title: Perush shem ben arba῾ otiyot
Title: פרוש שם בן ארבע אותיות

See [Scholem_1948] 258, no. 14.

ff. 31v-33v
Title: Midrash ha-ne῾elam
Title: מדרש הנעלם
Incipit: כל הקורא קריאת שמע באותיותיה. f. 31v
ff. 33v-40v
Title: Perush ῾eser sefirot
Title: פרוש עשר ספירות

See Scholem, 'Mafteaḥ Le-Perushim' 1933, p. 507 no. 79.

ff. 40v-43r
Title: She᾿elot u-teshuvot be-ḳabalah
Title: שאלות ותשובות בקבלה
Author: Hai, ben Sherira (attributed) האי בן שרירא, גאון
ff. 43r-44r
Title: Perush ῾eser sefirot
Title: פרוש עשר ספירות
Colophon: תל"ח יצחק חזק. f. 44r

See Scholem, 'Mafteaḥ Le-Perushim' 1933, p. 506 no. 68.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th to 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 45 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 135 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

45 folios (+ 2 unfoliated vellum and 1 paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each, marked by catchwords and signatures at the end.

Condition

First 70 leaves missing, and about 52 other leaves wanting after folio 8.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 33

Written lines: 33

Uniform layout.

Complete hard-point ruling visible.

Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable.

Square initial words.

Graphic fillers at the end of line.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script of the 14th to 15th century. Yitsḥaḳ: inscribed, folio 44r.

Additions:

Folios 44v-45v: a number of 16th century birth records, in some cases accompanied by a horoscope.

Binding

Post-1600. Black leather.

Spine: 'Joseph Gikatilla. Sha'are Orah. Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Add. Or. 17,807.'

History

Origin: 14th-15th century ; Italy?

Provenance and Acquisition

1849-06-30

Adolphus Asher: (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853, purchased from him on 30 June 1849: inscribed, folio [46v].

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_17807 (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. 745.

Bibliography

    [Scholem_1948] שלום, גרשם. 'ראשית הקבלה : <1150-<1250 / מאת גרשם שלום.'ירושלים ותל אביב: שוקן, 1948.
    Gershom Scholem. 'Mafteaḥ Le-Perushim ʿal ʿEser Sefirot'. Kiryat Sefer 10 (1933): 498-515.

Funding of Cataloguing

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