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Or 6465

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032-003314090
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Or 6465
Title:
Kabbalistic diagrams
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
1 folio.
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1556
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1556
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1556
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Daṿid ben Mosheh Darshan
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 6465

Kabbalistic diagrams

Contents

Kabbalistic diagrams.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-1v
Title: ῾Olam sefirot
Title: עולם הספירות

Diagrams of various aspects of ten sefirot, divine partsufin, Adam kadmon, with a short commentary written on the left and right side of the sheet. Full explanatory notes based on Sefer yetsirah, Zohar, and other kabbalistic texts.

ff. 1r-1v
diagrams, in pen and ink.

Colophon: דוד בן הגאון הקדוש מוהר"ר משה דרשן מקראקא בק"ק מודינא שנת ו'י'ש' תקוה לאחריתך. f. 1r

Physical Description

Parchment and canvas roll of the 16th century.
Form: scroll
Material: mixed
Support: Parchment and canvas.
Extent: 1 folio.
Dimensions (leaf): 2000 × 572 mm.
Foliation:

1 folio.

Collation

3 parchment membranes, mounted on linen, with cloth strips around edges.

Condition

Contractions from damp at inner corners.

Damp stains at edges, paste stains at joins.

Stress creases from rolling.

Losses and tears.

Usage stains and green colour transfer at edges from edge binding tape.

Outer end darker.

Linen backing spotted, with slight tidemarks.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 99

Written lines: 99

Initial words in large square characters.

Diagrams in pen and ink.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive script of the 16th century. Daṿid ben Mosheh Darshan: inscribed in the colophon.

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed.

History

Origin: 1556 Italy (Modena)

Provenance and Acquisition

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_6465 (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. 829.

Funding of Cataloguing

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