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032-003313856
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Add MS 26941
Title:
Collection of kabbalistic treatises
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
96 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
Luria, Isaac ben Solomon, 1534-1572
Luria, Isaac ben Solomon, 1534-1572
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
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Add MS 26941

Collection of kabbalistic treatises

Contents

Kabbalistic treatises.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-42v
Title: Gilui le-idrat Ha᾿azinu
Title: גלוי לאדרת האזינו
Author: Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph ויטל, חיים בן יוסף

See further [Avivi_2008] 586, vol. 2.

ff. 43r-96v
Title: Perush ha-Zohar (Sifra di-tseni῾uta)
Title: פרוש הזהר (ספרא דצניעותא)
Author: Luria, Isaac ben Solomon לוריא, יצחק (האר"י)

See Scholem, [Kiryat_Sefer] 19, p. 184.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: mixed
Support:
Extent: 96 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 165 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150/160 × 110/115 mm.
Foliation:

96 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

10 quires: i-iii10, iv-ix12x4.

Condition

Iron gall ink corrosion.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17 20

Written lines: 17 20

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Catchwords on every verso.

Initial words and headings in larger square characters.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script of the 18th century.

Binding

BM in-house, parchment binding.

Spine: 'Isaac Loria. Comm. on the Iddera Zuta. etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,941.'

History

Origin: 18th century ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 50: 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, back flyleaf verso.

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_26941 (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. 798.

Bibliography

    [Avivi_2008] Joseph Avivi, and יוסף אביב"י. 'Ḳabalat Ha-Ari / Yosef Avivi.'Yerushalayim: Mekhon Ben-Tsevi le-ḥeḳer ḳehilot Yiśraʾel ba-Mizraḥ, ירושלים, 2008.
    [Kiryat_Sefer] 'KIRYAT SEFER.', n.d.

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