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Or 12482

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Or 12482
Title:
Pardes rimonim by Moses Cordovero
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
369 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1500-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Cordovero, Moses ben Jacob, 1522-1570
Cordovero, Moses ben Jacob, 1522-1570
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 12482

Pardes rimonim by Moses Cordovero

Contents

A kabbalistic treatise.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-369v
Title: Pardes rimonim
Title: פרדס רמונים

The name of the scribe at the end has been erased.

Author: Cordovero, Moses ben Jacob קורדוברו, משה

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th to 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 369 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 293 × 185 mm.
Dimensions (written): 215 × 125 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Indeterminable (too tightly rebound).

Condition

Severe damp entry at top corner, often spreading across the leaf.

Tidemarks, with losses of text due to mould.

All damage treated, repaired, infilled, and silked before rebinding.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 36

Written lines: 36

Uniform layout.

Larger square titles and initial words.

Catchwords on every verso.

Multiple diagrams, including a full folio sefirotic tree with missing volvelles (remaining thread knots show the points of attachment), folio 79r and 79v.

Marginal notes in various hands.

Maniculae, e.g. folio 78v.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive and square script of the 16th to 17th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Pardes Rimmonim. Hebrew. Moses ben Jacob Cordovero. Brit. Mus. Oriental Ms. 12,482.'

History

Origin: 16th-17th century ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Camillo Jaghel: inscribed, 1611, folio 369r.

Acquired by the British Library in 1960.

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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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12482 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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