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Title:
Otsrot Ḥayim by Ḥayyim Vital
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
181 folios
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
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Add MS 27077

Otsrot Ḥayim by Ḥayyim Vital

Contents

A kabbalistic treatise edited by Ḥayim Vital, with additions by other kabbalists.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-181v
Title: Otsrot Ḥayim
Title: אוצרות חיים

Contains additions and glosses by Moses ben Mordecai Zacuto (marked as Kol Rama"z), Beyamin ha-Kohen and Nathan ben Reuben Shapira. The heading on folio 1 suggest that the work was written by a student of Nathan Shapira.

Prefixed are: Madregot Shem, folios 1v-2r; Moses Zacuto's note on the ten sefirot, folio 2v; Seder ha-orot, folios 3v-4r; Ilan sefirot, folios 5v-6r; Arikh anpin, folio 7r; responsa of Moses Zacuto, folios 8r-23v.

Appended are additional teachings from the school of Ḥayim Vital, folios 168r-181v.

Author: Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph ויטל, חיים בן יוסף
Filiation: Cf. the same work in Add MS 27066.

ff. 2v-7r
diagrams, in pen and ink.

References

[Otsrot_Hayim_1783]

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 181 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 155 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155 × 105/135 mm.
Foliation:

181 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Original Hebrew foliation extending from folio 1 to 144.

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 to 10 leaves each.

Condition

Minor edge damage.

Slight worming in gutter.

Text disappearing into the spine due to tight binding.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 28 35

Written lines: 28 35

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every page.

Initial words in larger characters.

Numerous additions and comments in the margin. Sections numbered in square Hebrew letters.

Folios 1-7 occupied by diagrams.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script of the 17th century.

ff. 1r-23v
,
ff. 168r-181v
due to a contemporary Italian hand.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Isaac Loria. Otsroth Chaiyim. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,077.'

History

Origin: 17th century ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 182: 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.

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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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27077 (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. 805.

Bibliography

    [Otsrot_Hayim_1783] וויטל, חיים, and 1542 or Ḥayyim ben Joseph Vital. 'Sefer Otsrot Ḥayim / ... Ḥayim Ṿiṭal.'קארעץ, תקמג, Ḳorets 1783, 1783.
    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

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