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Or 10103

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032-003346134
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Or 10103
Title:
Collection of kabbalistic texts
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
105 folios (viii+105+i)
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Start Date:
1741
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1741
Date Range:
1741
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CE
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Names:
Binyamin ha-Cohen
Binyamin ha-Levi
Carpi, Solomon Joseph ben Nathan, rabbi, fl 18th century,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/298055914
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Ḳarpi, Shelomoh Yosef ben Natan,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000402427796,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/298055914
Ḳarpi, Shelomoh Yosef ben Natan,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000402427796,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/298055914
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10103

Collection of kabbalistic texts

Contents

Collection of kabbalistic texts

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-14r
Author:
Title: תקון שובבים
Title: Tiḳun Shovavim

Kabbalistic prayers for the fastdays.

M. Gaster's note on front flyleaf (ii)r: 'The author probably Binyamin ha-Cohen pupil of R. Moses Zacuto...'.

ff. 15r-61v
Author:
Title: כונות התפלות
Title: Kaṿanot ha-tefilah

Kabbalistic prayers.

M. Gaster's note on front flyleaf (ii)r: 'Binyamin ha-Levi (of Smyrna, father of S[olomon] Levi ... of Smyrna & teacher of M. Zucato ...)'.

ff. 62r-74v
Author:
Title: סדר תפלות הדרך על דרך הקבלה וסגלות
Title: Seder tefilat ha-derekh ʿal derekh ha-Ḳabalah u-segulot

ff. 75r-86v
Author: קרפי, שלמה יוסף בן נתן Carpi, Solomon Joseph ben Nathan
Title: רזא דמילתא
Title: Raza de-milta

ff. 87r-96v
Author: קרפי, שלמה יוסף בן נתן Carpi, Solomon Joseph ben Nathan
Title: תולדות שבתי צבי
Title: Toldot Shabtai Tsevi

Casale Monferrato is mentioned on fol. 91v: 'בני ק"ק קסאל מונפראטו שבאיטליה'.

ff. 97r-105r
Author:
Title: אגרון : אגרות מן השנים תצ"ה-תצ"ז
Title: Igron: igrot min ha-shanim 495-497

According to colophon it was given as a gift by Solomon Joseph Carpi (the author of certain sections and possibly the scibe) to Avraham Hay ben Yitshak ha-Levi from the town of Cento.

Colophon: "היום יום ג' ח"י לחדש אדר שנת ה’תק"א ליצירה פה מנטובה הריני נותן זה הספר להבחור ... אברהם חי בכמ"ר יצחק הלוי מעיר צינטו במתנה גמורה אף בתנאיגמור שבכח שבועה חמורה דאורייתא שלא יוכל [לתת?] לשום אדם שבעולם לא במתנה ולא במכירה לא זה ולא [...] ובזה ישבון בטח אני ... שלמה יוסף קרפי". f. 105r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid and chain lines; watermark: three-leaved shamrock and the word: MANTOVA.
Extent: 105 folios (viii+105+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 203 × 143 mm.
Dimensions (written): 105 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals. Fol. 14v is blank, and 4 blank, unfoliated leaves between fols. 104 and 105.

Collation

Undeterminable (too tight binding).

Catchword on almost every page.

Condition

Stain on fol. 41.

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout.

Wide, clear margins.

Ruling for vertical margins is visible.

Some parts are underlined in pencil (e.g. fols. 76r, 87r)

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew cursive script of t he 18th century. For a very similar handwriting, see Frankfurt am Main, Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. hebr. oct. 16 (http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/mshebr/urn/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:2-8108), and Solomon Joseph ben Nathan Carpi's collected writings (Livorno?, 1744; Kestenbaum action 68, lot: 113).

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house, half-bound.

Spine: 'Miscellaneous Works. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. OR. MS. 10,103.'

History

Origin: ; Italy (Mantua)

Provenance and Acquisition

M. Gaster's notes in pencil on front flyleaf (ii)r.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 445: inscribed with his name of fols. (ii)r, 105r; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession: 28 March 1928: inscribed on fol. 105v.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).

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