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Add MS 27002
Title:
Collection of kabbalistic works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
[iii]+180+[iv]
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 27002

Collection of kabbalistic works

Contents

Two kabbalistic works bound in one volume.

Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th to 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: [iii]+180+[iv]

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'En Shemesh and Sepher Hai-Yichud. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,002.'

History

Origin: 15th-16th century ; Italy?

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 113: 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 dealer to the British Museum (see [Paisey_1997] 131-153): inscribed, back flyleaf (ii)v.

I

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 2r-117v
Title: Sefer ha-meshiv : sodot ῾al ha-Torah
Title: ספר המשיב : סודות על התורה

The manuscript begins with the end of the commentary on Bereshit and finishes with the pericope Ṿa-yetse.

There are marginal notes both in Hebrew, Spanish and Latin throughout the manuscript.

Some anti-christian phrases have been omitted by the scribe, see e.g., folio 82v.

See further [Scholem_1930] 85-89; [Sefunot] 11 (1972), pp. 73 nn; [Sefunot] 17 (1984), p. 185.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th to 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 117 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 230 × 165 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 2-117.

Collation

Irregular quiring. Quires of 6 to 10 leaves each.

Condition

Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.

Lacuna between folios 87 and 88.

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 28 36

Written lines: 28 36

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

Some extensive notes in the margins, see e.g., foliosIrregular fol 48r-55v.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive script of the 15th to 16th century.

ff. 88r-117v
due to a different but contemporary hand.

History

Origin: 15th-16th century

II

Contents

ff. 118r-180v
Title: Sefer ha-temunah
Title: ספר התמונה

Contains only Sefer ha-yiḥud, with a commentary on Shema῾ Yisra᾿el and the cycles of years.

f. 128r a sefirotic diagram.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 62 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 230 × 165 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155 × 105 mm.
Foliation:

Folios 118-180.

Collation

Quires of mostly 12 leaves each.

Condition

Imperfect at the end.

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 28

Uniform layout.

Initial words in square characters.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive of the 16th century.

History

Origin: 16th century

Additional Information

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_27002 (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. 766.

Bibliography

    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).
    [Scholem_1930] Gershom Gerhard Scholem. 'Kitve-Yad Be-Ḳabalah Ha-Nimtsaʾim Be-Vet Ha-Sefarim Ha- Leʾumi Ṿeha-Universiṭaʾi Bi-Yerushala[y]Im / Teʾaram Ṿe-Ḥaḳaram Gershom Shalom ; Be-Hishtatfut Yiʹsʹsakhar Yoʾel.'Yerushalayim: Ḥevrah le-hotsaʾat sefarim ʿal-yad ha- Universiṭah ha-ʿIvrit, 1930.
    [Sefunot] מכון בן צבי (ירושלים). 'ספונות ספר שנה לחקר קהילות ישראל במזרח.'מכון בן צבי לחקר קהילות ישראל במזרח, 1957.

Funding of Cataloguing

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