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Or 5403

Record Id:
032-003314065
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Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5403
Title:
Sha῾are orah by Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
112 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5403 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1300-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, kabbalist and scholar, 1248-1325
Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, kabbalist and scholar, 1248-1325
S. Raffalovich
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 5403

Sha῾are orah by Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla

Contents

A kabbalistic treatise.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-112v
Title: Sha῾are orah
Title: שערי אורה
Author: Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham ג'קטילה, יוסף בן אברהם

Defective at the beginning and at the end.

Filiation: Cf. the contents of Harley MS 5510.

Physical Description

Paper and parchment codex of the 14th to 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: mixed
Support: Paper and parchment.
Extent: 112 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 182 × 120 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each, marked by catchwords at the end.

Condition

Folio 59 mutilated.

Paper foxing.

Tears at edges.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 25 28

Written lines: 25 28

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Initial words and headings in slightly larger characters.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script of the 14th to 15th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 5403.'

History

Origin: 14th-15th century ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

1898-07-12

S. Raffalovich: purchased from him by the British Museum on 12 July 1898: inscribed, folio [113v].

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=Or_5403 (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. 744.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL