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Or 12263

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Or 12263
Title:
Ḥayim Ṿital's Ha-Sheʿarim
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
126 folios (iv+126+iv)
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Start Date:
1743
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1743
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1743
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
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Or 12263

Ḥayim Ṿital's Ha-Sheʿarim

Contents

'The Book of Gates', a collection of sermons on the main kabbalistic subjects.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-126v
"נשלם אור לראש חדש ניסן משנת התק"ג"
Author: Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542 or 1543-1620 ויטל, חיים בן יוסף
Title: השערים (שער הכוונות)
Title: ha-Sheʿarim (Shaʿar ha-kaṿanot)

Title in the MS: In the manuscript: שער הכונות.

Incomplete: lacunae after fols. 50, 111, 121.

Note on fol. 126v: מועתק מס' שהועתק מכ"י הר"ש ויטל ז"ל שהוגה מכ"י הרח"ו ז"ל.

Marginal note on fol. 126r is folded.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 126 folios (iv+126+iv)
Dimensions (leaf): 225 × 170 mm.
Dimensions (written): 202 × 128 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink (by the scribe?). Hebrew fol. 188 is double (=fols. 118 and 119).

Collation

15 quires: i-xi10, xii-xv4.

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage.

Some leaves are patched.

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout. Section headings are often written in larger, square characters.

Even left margins.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 18th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house; half-bound.

Spine: 'Shaʿar hak-kavvānōth Hebrew Brit. Lib. Oriental MS. 12263.'

History

Origin: 1743

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1387; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession: 4 February 1932.

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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Surrogates

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Bibliography

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