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Or 6835

Record Id:
032-003314100
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Or 6835
Title:
Sefer ha-ḳanah
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
242 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_6835 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1524
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1524-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Shelomoh Ezobi
Weiss & Co.
Yosef ben Yaḥya Tsalaḥ
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 6835

Sefer ha-ḳanah

Contents

Kabbalistic treatise.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-242v
Title: Sefer ha-ḳanah
Title: ספר הקנה

The contents of folios 3-14 were apparently copied from a faulty manuscript in which words and phrases were occasionally missing or illegible.

Folios 1-2 contain an index of the mitsṿot dealt with in the text.

Folios 235v-242v contain notes and diagrams.

Colophon: אני שלמה אזובי הצעיר שבתלמידים שבישיבת צפת שבגליל העליון כתבתי זה הספר למארי ורבי נשא ונעלה בפלפול וסברא: סיני ועוקר הרים: הוא החכם השלם כמה"ר יצחק ן' חיים יצ"ו האל ברחמיו יזכהו להגות בו הוא וזרעו [...] סיימתיו בחדש חשון שבעה עשר יום בו שנת הרפ"ד ליצירה: ויהי רצון מלפני האל שהסופר לא יזק [עד שיעלה חמור בסולם שיעקב] אבי' חלם: א'נ'ס': f. 235r

f. 192r a diagram of sefirot, in pen and ink.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 242 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

242 folios (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 at the end).

Hebrew folation.

Collation

Quires of mostly 12 leaves each.

Condition

Signs of damp at edges.

Worming.

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 26 28

Written lines: 26 28

Uniform layout.

Larger square initial words.

Diagrams, folios 235v-242v.

Marginal notes and additions.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 16th century. Shelomoh Ezobi: inscribed, folio 235r.

ff. 3r-14v
supllied in the 17th to 18th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Sepher Hak-Kaneh. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 6835.'

History

Origin: ; Palestine (Safed)

Provenance and Acquisition

Yosef ben Yaḥya Tsalaḥ: his name in the impression of a seal, folio 3r.

Weiss & Co.: purchased by the British Museum on 11 April 1908: inscribed, back flyleaf (i).

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=Or_6835 (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. 1161.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL