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Or 12322

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Or 12322
Title:
Sefer ha-peliʾah
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
241 folios (iv+241+iv)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12322 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 12322

Sefer ha-peliʾah

Contents

A kabbalistic commentary on the first pericope of Genesis.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 2v-241r
Author:
Title: ספר הפליאה
Title: Sefer ha-peliʾah

Title given in the MS: Sefer ḳanah.

Incomplete at the beginning.

Spurious colophon at the end, written by a different hand: נשלם בשנת ה’ אלפים וארבעים ואחד בעיר בבלfol. 241r).

Filiation: See also [BL] Or 2672, [BL] Harley MS 5515, and [BL] Add MS 26949.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 241 folios (iv+241+iv)
Dimensions (leaf): 310 × 223 mm.
Dimensions (written): 215 × 142 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink below the left columns on the recto sides; it shows that 2 leaves are missing after fol. 2 (fol. 2 = fol. א, fol. 3 = fol. ד).

Collation

Indeterminable.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Leaves are conserved (lamination).

Iron gall ink corrosion; several leaves are illegible.

Water damage.

Fol. 2 is severely damaged.

Layout

Columns:2

Uniform layout.

Even left margins.

Marginal notes.

Maniculae (e.g. fols. 51r, 51v).

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Sēpher Hap-pelīʾāh Hebrew Brit. Mus. Oriental MS. 12322.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 91; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 12 September 1927.

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

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12322 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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