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Or 62
Title:
Collection of kabbalistic treatises
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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:
251 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
A.C. Reichardt
Abulafia, Todros ben Joseph, 1220-1298
Abulafia, Todros ben Joseph, 1220-1298
Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, kabbalist and scholar, 1248-1325
Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, kabbalist and scholar, 1248-1325
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Or 62

Collection of kabbalistic treatises

Contents

A collection of kabbalistic treatises.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-141v
Title: Ginat egoz
Title: גנת אגוז
Author: Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham ג'קטילה, יוסף בן אברהם

Incomplete at the beginning. Several of the leaves are misplaces, the proper order is indicated in almost every case by later notes at the bottom of the pages.

Corrections and additions in later handwriting are in a number of instances given in the margin.

ff. 142r-143v
Title: Sod Bat Sheva
Title: סוד בת שבע
Author: Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham ג'קטילה, יוסף בן אברהם
ff. 144r-251v
Title: Otsar ha-kavod
Title: אוצר הכבוד
Author: Abulafia, Todros ben Joseph, ha-Levi אבולעפיה, טודרוס בן יוסף הלוי

Includes commentaries on tractates Berakhot, Shabat, folio 180r; Megilah, folio193r; Ta῾anit, folio 199r; Ḥagigah, folio 205r; Rosh ha-Shanah, folio 216v; Sukah, folio 224r; Pesaḥim, folio 229r; Ḥulin, folio 234v; ῾Eruvin, folio 240r; Yevamot, folio 242r; Soṭah, folio 248r.

Folios 145r-156v give a complete table of contents, which show that the manuscript originally contained also tractate Ketubot, Giṭin and Ḳidushin.

The entire number of smaller sections is given as 496, but there are occasional mistakes in enumeration.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th to 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 251 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 305 × 200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 195 × 120 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 12 leaves each.

Hebrew original foliation up to folio 142.

Condition

Folio 199 to end: rodent damage.

Paling ink.

Worming.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 32 35

Written lines: 32 35

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Catchwords on every verso.

Initial words and headings in larger square characters.

Hand(s)

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

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Joseph Gikatilla. Gannath Egoz, Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 62.'

History

Origin: 15th-16th century ; Germany?

Provenance and Acquisition

1867-06-08

A.C. Reichardt: purchased from him by the British Museum on 08 June 1867: inscribed, folio [252v].

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

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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. 742.

Funding of Cataloguing

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