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032-003313854
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Add MS 26934
Title:
Collection of kabbalistic texts
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Extent:
161 folios
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1531
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1531
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1531
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Names:
Camillo Jaghel
Eliyyah Ḥayyim ben Binyamin da Genazzano,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000010652855X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2710907
Eliyyah Ḥayyim ben Binyamin da Genazzano,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000010652855X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2710907
Giuseppe Almanzi
Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118044667,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90633023
Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118044667,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90633023
Matkah, Judah ben Solomon, ha-Kohen, fl 13th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000053054943,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/39272010,
Matkah, Judah ben Solomon, ha-Kohen, fl 13th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000053054943,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/39272010,
Yosef ben Sheraga, 1400-1499
Yosef ben Sheraga, 1400-1499
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 26934

Collection of kabbalistic texts

Contents

A collection of kabbalistic texts.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-160v
Title: Ḳovets be-ḳabalah
Title: קובץ בקבלה
Colophon: פה קולי[?] כב פיב' י'פ'א'ר' ענוים בישועה. f. 59r
Colophon: f. 142r ו"השלמתי זה החיבור הנחמד יום ה' יו ינארו רצ"א.
ff. 4r-5v
Title: Perush ha-hagadah
Title: פרוש ההגדה
ff. 6r-9r
Title: Liḳutim be-ḳabalah
Title: לקוטים בקבלה

Contain parts of Ḥaye ha-῾olam ha-ba of Abraham Abulafia (folios 6r-6v), permutations of divine name (folios 7r-8r), and a piece on prayers and zodiac (folios 8v-9r).

ff. 10r-16v
Title: Midrash ha-ḥokhmah
Title: מדרש החכמה
Author: Matkah, Judah ben Solomon מתקה, יהודה בן שלמה הכהן
ff. 17r-59r
Title: Sefer ha-bahir
Title: ספר הבהיר
Colophon: פה קולי[?] כב פיב' י'פ'א'ר' ענוים בישועה. f. 59r
ff. 60r-86r
Title: Perush ha-tefilot
Title: פרוש התפלות
Author: Joseph ibn Shraga שרגא, יוסף אבן
ff. 87r-95r
Title: Igeret
Title: אגרת

References

See Greenup, A. W. London, 'A Kabbalistic Epistle by Isaac b. Samuel b. Hayyim Sephardi'. Jewish Quarterly Review 21 (1931), pp. 365-375.
ff. 95v-96v
Title: Perush ῾eser sefirot
Title: פרוש עשר ספירות

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

ff. 97r-98v
Title: Sod shatnezga"ts
Title: סוד שעטנזג"ץ
ff. 138r-142r
Title: Atsile bene Yisra᾿el
Title: אצילי בני ישראל
Author: Eliyah Ḥayim ben Binyamin, da Genazzano גינזנו, אליהו חיים בן בנימין
Colophon: ו"השלמתי זה החיבור הנחמד יום ה' יו ינארו רצ"א. f. 142r
ff. 143r-145v
Title: Alfa beta de-ben Sira
Title: אלפא ביתא דבן סירא
ff. 146r-160v
Title: Sefer ha-῾atsamim
Title: ספר העצמים
Author: Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr עזרא, אברהם בן מאיר אבן

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 161 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 140 × 101 mm.
Dimensions (written): 89 × 68 mm.
Foliation:

161 folios (+ 3 unfoliated modern flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Collation

Irregular quiring.

Condition

Usage stains.

Corrosive ink.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 18 23

Written lines: 18 23

Uniform layout.

Initial words in larger characters.

Visible hard-point and plummet ruling.

Last written line within ruling.

Catchwords on every verso.

Graphic fillers at the end of the line.

Marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive and cursive script of the 16th century.

Additions:

Folios 2r, 3r, 161r: rhymed lines.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Sepher Hab-Bahir, Etc. Hebr. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,934.'

History

Origin: 1531 Italy, Central (Siena, Colle di Val D'Elsa?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Camillo Jaghel: inscribed with his name, 1611 (folio 160v); see [Popper_1969] 50-56.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 42; his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum: inscribed (folio [163v]).

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_26934 (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. 793.

Bibliography

    Gershom Scholem. 'Mafteaḥ Le-Perushim ʿal ʿEser Sefirot'. Kiryat Sefer 10 (1933): 498-515.
    [Popper_1969] William Popper. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.

Funding of Cataloguing

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