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Add MS 17745
Title:
Sefer ha-zohar on the book of Genesis
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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:
183 folios
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
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CE
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Names:
Eliyahu Anav
Giovanni Domenico Vistorini
Hippolite of Ferrara
Laurentius Franguellus
Shelomoh
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Add MS 17745

Sefer ha-zohar on the book of Genesis

Contents

Sefer ha-zohar on the book of Genesis.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-183v
Title: Sefer ha-zohar
Title: ספר הזוהר

The manuscript contains only the Zohar on Genesis. There is no standard introductory part, and there are some other discrepancies with the printed edition.

18 initial-word panels in colours decorated with penwork and accompanied with partial pen-flourished border. f. 1r, 1v, 13v, 22r, 32r, 35r, 47r, 49r, 60v, 65v, 79r, 87v, 97r, 112v, 126r, 140v, 153v, 160r

References

[Zohar_1957]

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 183 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 275 × 195 mm.
Dimensions (written): 185 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

183 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper and 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires: i-xxii8 (folios 1-176), xxiii8-1 (folios 176-183). Catchwords at the end.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 35 36

Written lines: 35 36

Uniform layout.

Initial words in larger square characters.

Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.

Hair side and flesh side of the folios distinguishable.

Marginal notes, e.g., folio 77v, 161v.

Omissions indicated in the margin, e.g., folio 182r, 182v.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script of the 15th century. Shelomoh (?): marked off, folio 181r.

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600. Black leather.

Spine: 'Liber Zohar. Comment. In Genesin. Hebr. Brit. Mus. Add. Or. 17,745.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Eliyahu Anav: inscribed with his name, undated (folio 1r).

Laurentius Franguellus (fl. until 1596): inscribed with his name, 1575 (folio 182v); see [Popper_1969] 78, appendix § 105-110.

Hippolite of Ferrara, Franciscan (active 1590-1609, in Cremona?): inscribed with his name, 1601 (folio 182v), see [Popper_1969] 18-19, 93.

Giovanni Domenico Vistorini: inscribed 'Gio. Dom. Vistorini 1609' (folio 182v), see [Popper_1969] 85-87.

1848

Acquired by the British Museum in 1848.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Surrogates

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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. 762.

Bibliography

    [Zohar_1957] ברנדוויין, יהודה צבי, יהודה אשלג, Yehuda Ẓevi Brandwein, and Yehudah Ashlag. 'Sefer Ha-Zohar ʻal Ḥamishah Ḥumshe Torah / Meha-Tana Shimʻon Bar Yoḥai ; ʻim Perush Derekh Emet Ṿe-ʻim Beʾur Maʻalot Ha-Sulam ... Gam ʻim Mesoret Ha-Zohar ... Ḥilufe Girsaʾot ... Be-Ḥeleḳ Zeh Mevuʾarim Ha-Hashmaṭot Le-Ḥeleḳ Be-Reshit Ṿeha-Hosafot Li-Shemot, Ṿa-Yiḳra Be-Midbar, Devarim ; Mafteaḥ Milim Ṿe-Gam Mafteaḥ ... Ha-Maʻaśyot Shebe-Khol Ḥelḳe Ha-Zohar Ṿe-Tiḳunim Ṿe-Zohar Ḥadash Ṿe-Tiḳunim Ḥadashim Meturgam Bi-Leshon Ha-Ḳodesh / Yehudah Tsevi Brandṿain.'תל-אביב: יברנדוויין בדפוס עתיד, תשי״ח 1957 או 1958, Tel-Aviv, 1957.
    [Popper_1969] William POPPER. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.

Funding of Cataloguing

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