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Add MS 26959

Record Id:
032-003314380
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Add MS 26959
Title:
Collection of Kabbalistic, sabbatean and legal works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
52 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26959 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Barukh ben Gershon, of Arezzo
Giuseppe Almanzi
Ibn Waqār, Joseph ben Abraham, 1300-1399
Ibn Waqār, Joseph ben Abraham, 1300-1399
Moise Luria
ברוך בן גרשון מאריצו
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 26959

Collection of Kabbalistic, sabbatean and legal works

Contents

Kabbalistic, sabbatean and legal writings.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-20v
Title: Zikaron li-vene Yisra᾿el
Title: זכרון לבני ישראל
Author: Barukh ben Gershon, of Arezzo ברוך בן גרשון מאריצו
Filiation: Cf. Add MS 22096.
ff. 21r-34v
Title: Sefer ha-shorashim ῾al milot ha-ḳabalah
Title: ספר שרשים על מלות הקבלה
Author: Ibn Waqār, Joseph ben Abraham, active 14th century וקאר, יוסף בן אברהם

See Scholem, 'Mafteaḥ Le-Perushim' 1933, p. 499 no. 4.

ff. 35r-52r
Title: Ḳitsur Tsedeḳ tamim
Title: קצור צדיק תמים

An abridgement of Yehudah Loeb's Sefer Tsedeḳ tamim.

f. 35r ornamental arcade ink black ink, framing the title page.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 52 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 135/125 × 85/95 mm.
Dimensions (written): 115/90 × 80/60 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 18 25

Written lines: 18 25

Non-uniform layout.

Running title in the earlier part (folios 1-20).

Catchwords from folio to folio (folios 21-34).

Square initial words (folios 21-52).

Hard-point ruling in the latter part.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive scripts of the 17th century.

ff. 1r-20v
,
ff. 21r-34v
and
ff. 35r-52r
due to three different scribes.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Zikkaron Li-B'ne Yisrael. Etc. Hebr. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,959'

History

Origin: 17th century ; Italy?

Provenance and Acquisition

Moise Luria: inscribed, folio 51v.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 70; his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum: inscribed on back flyleaf (ii)v.

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=Add_MS_26959 (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. 1067.

Bibliography

    Gershom Scholem. 'Mafteaḥ Le-Perushim ʿal ʿEser Sefirot'. Kiryat Sefer 10 (1933): 498-515.

Funding of Cataloguing

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