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Add MS 27060
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- Add MS 27060
- Title:
- Or yaḳar (Tiḳune Zohar) by Moses Cordovero
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Record Type (Level):
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- Extent:
- 242 folios
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- Languages:
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Jewish Babylonian Aramaic - Scripts:
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- Start Date:
- 1582
- End Date:
- 1582
- Date Range:
- 1582
- Calendar:
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- CE
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Add MS 27060
Or yaḳar (Tiḳune Zohar) by Moses Cordovero
Contents
A commentary on Tiḳune Zohar, volume 1 part 1.
Language(s): Aramaic of the Zohar
ff. 1r-284vTitle: Or yaḳar (Tiḳune Zohar)Title: אור יקר (תקוני הזהר)The volume is uniform with Add MS 27061 which begins where Add MS 27060 breaks off, containing gates 1-5 of Bava ḳama.
Numerous notes on the outer margins of the pages. On the upper margins, down to folio 127v, are entries related to the contents of the respective pages.
There are notes on certain subjects bearing on the contents of the manuscripts on folio 1r.
Additional scribe's entries, dated 1581 (Asti), folios 53r, 122r; and dated 1582, folios 183r, 246r.
Colophon: נשלם ונכתב ע"י הצעיר יעקב פוייטי' בכמ"ר מפ' יום חנוכת המזבח שנת השמ"ב ליצירה ה' יזכני להגות בו ולהבינו כראוי בלי מכשול וטעות אני וזרעי [...] ויקיים בי גל עיני ואביטה נפלאות מתורתך. f. 284rReferences
Physical Description
Paper codex of the second half of the 16th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport:Extent: 242 foliosDimensions (leaf): 320 × 220 mm.Dimensions (written): 230 × 125 mm.Foliation:242 folios (+ 8 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 14 at the end).
Collation
Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.
Original Hebrew foliation, from no. 1-282 (continues in Add MS 27060).
Condition
Stained.
Layout
Columns:1 2
Ruled lines: 35
Written lines: 35
Uniform layout.
Visible hard-point ruling.
Catchwords on every verso.
Initial words in larger square characters.
Running titles.
A number of marginal notes and comments.
Hand(s)
Italian semi-cursive script (for the main text and for the commentary) of the second half of the 16th century. Ya῾aḳov ben Mordekhai Pogeṭṭi: inscribed in the colophon, folio 284r.
Binding
Post-1600. Dark red leather, blind tooled, with marks of clasps. Boxed.
Spine: 'Moses Cordovero. Or Yakar. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,060.'
History
Origin: 1582 Italy, N. (Asti)Provenance and Acquisition
Censored by Boniforte del Asinary: Italian censor (active 1575-1599 in Asti): inscribed with his name: 'Visto et coretto per me Boniforte del Asinary' (folio 284r); see [Popper_1969] V.
Censored by Hieronimus Carolus: inscribed with his name: 'Inqu. Asti. Die 19 Febr. 1582' (folio 284r).
Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 165: 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 (i)v.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.Availability
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27060 (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. 781.Bibliography
[Tikune_Zohar_1867] Elijah ben Solomon, of Vilna Abraham ben Elijah, and אליה בן שלמה. 'Sefer Tiḳune Ha-Zohar : ʿim Tiḳunim Mi-Zohar Ḥadash... / ʿim Beʾur Ha-Gra [Me]-Eliyahu Me-Ṿilna, ... Gam Beʾur Beno ... Avraham.'Vilna, 1867, וילנא, 1867, 1867.[Popper_1969] William Popper. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.[Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).Funding of Cataloguing
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