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Or 12339

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Or 12339
Title:
Collection of kabbalistic works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
186 folios (iv+186+iv)
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Languages:
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1600-1799
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CE
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Names:
Fano, Menahem Azariah, Italian rabbi, 1548-1620
Fano, Menahem Azariah, Italian rabbi, 1548-1620
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Hannover, Nathan Nata, c 1620-1683
Hannover, Nathan Nata, c 1620-1683
Luria, Isaac ben Solomon, 1534-1572
Luria, Isaac ben Solomon, 1534-1572
Moses Zucato
Shapira, Natan, 1660-1662
Shapira, Natan, 1660-1662
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
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Or 12339

Collection of kabbalistic works

Contents

A collection of kabbalistic works from various authors.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-26v
Author:
Title: דרושים על פסוקים בתנ"ך על דרך הקבלה
Title: Derushim ʿal pasuḳim ba-Tanakh ʿal derekh ha-ḳabalah

Interpretations of biblical verses including Esther (fols. 9-12); a passage from the Zohar ḥadash 'folio 52b' (apparently from the Cracow edition, 1603) (fol. 13v-14r); and an interpretation of the Midrash ha-neʿelam on Ruth (fols. 14v-16).

Note on fol. 14r: "עד מצאתי כתוב כאן".

ff. 27r-35r
Author: Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542 or 1543-1620 ויטל, חיים בן יוסף
Title: אוצרות חיים (קטע)
Title: Otsrot ḥayim (ḳeṭaʻ)

Contains derushim on adam ḳadmon.

ff. 36r-57v
Author:
Title: זהר חדש (מדרש רות)
Title: Zohar ḥadash (Midrash Rut)

Portions of Midrash Ruth from the Zohar ḥadash.

Incomplete.

ff. 58r-101v
Author: מנחם עזריה, מפאנו Fano, Menahem Azariah da 1548-1620
Title: כנפי יונה
Title: Kanfe Yonah

Attributed to Menahem Azariah of Fano.

Both the text and its arrangement differ materially from the printed edition, Korzec, 1786.

ff. 102r-145v
Author:
Title: סודות ודרושים בקבלה
Title: Sodot ṿe-derushim ha-ḳabalah

ff. 146r-147v
Author:
Title: סדר הוידוי
Title: Seder ha-ṿiduy

Various tiḳunim, some quoted in the name of Nathan Hannover or Natan Shapira.

ff. 148r-151v
Author:
Title: פרושים למדרשים על דרך הקבלה
Title: Perushim la-midrashim ʿal derekh ha-ḳabalah

Interpretations of midrashim, mainly from the Midrash rabah, with chapter references in the margins.

ff. 152r-161r
Author:
Title: יסוד עולם
Title: Yesod ʿolam

Lurianic tract.

ff. 161v-164v
Author:
Title: ספר הבהיר
Title: Sefer ha-bahir

Incomplete.

ff. 165r-165v
Author:
Title: כונה לטבילות ערב יום הכפורים
Title: Kaṿanah le-ṭevilot ʿerev Yom ha-kipurim

A kaṿanah by Nathan Hannover or Natan Shapira for the immersion on the Eve of Yom Kipur.

ff. 167r-175r
Author: Luria, Isaac ben Solomon, 1534-1572 לוריא, יצחק
Title: כונות
Title: Kaṿanot

Compiled by Nathan Neta (Hannover?) from an 'old' book of kaṿanot, and corrected by him on the basis of the text in the possession of Moses Zucato.

ff. 176r-176v
Author:
Title: תפלות על דרך הקבלה
Title: Tefilot ʿal derekh ha-ḳabalah

ff. 177r-185v
Author: Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542 or 1543-1620 ויטל, חיים בן יוסף
Title: אוצרות חיים (קטע)
Title: Otsrot ḥayim (ḳeṭaʻ)

Contains derushim on adam ḳadmon.

Fol. 185v: "טבילת י’ ימי תשובה למוהר"ן זצוק"ל".

ff. 186r-186v
Author:
Title: ברית מנוחה (הקדמה)
Title: Berit menuḥah (haḳdamah)

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th-18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, traces of watermark (fols. 71, 114, too small to identify).
Extent: 186 folios (iv+186+iv)
Dimensions (leaf): 203 × 150 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink: fols. 167-173 foliated as 2-8; fols. 177-184 foliated as 1-8.

Fols. 166v, 175v are blank.

Collation

Indeterminable.

Catchword in some of the versos.

Two fragments from the end of the manuscript are now preserved in [BL] Or 12339 A.

Condition

Usage stains.

Water damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Section headings are often written in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew cursive scripts of the 17th-18th century; several hands.

Additions:

Binding

BL in-house. In slip-case.

Spine: 'Kabbalistic Pieces. Hebrew. British Library OR. MS. 12339.'

History

Origin: 1600-1799 17th-18th century.

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 34; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 14 July 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_12339 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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