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Add MS 16407

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032-003367302
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Add MS 16407
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:
135 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, b 1248,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000435018569,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/51777166,
Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, b 1248,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000435018569,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/51777166,
Ibn Waqār, Joseph ben Abraham, 1300-1399
Ibn Waqār, Joseph ben Abraham, 1300-1399
Natan᾿el Tseva῾ of Severino
Recanati, Menahem ben Benjamin, 1200-1399
Recanati, Menahem ben Benjamin, 1200-1399
Yitsḥaḳ ben Ya῾aḳov Tsarfati of Ancona
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 16407

Collection of kabbalistic works

Contents

A collection of kabbalistic works.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-40r
Title: Sha῾are tsedeḳ
Title: שערי צדק
Author: Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, 1248- ג'יקטיליה, יוסף בן אברהם

The Latin title: "Portia Justitiae" is written twice on the upper margin.

Colophon: זה הספר כתבתיו אני יצחק הצעיר מצעירי התלמידים בכמ"ר יעקב צרפתי זלה"ה וכתבתיהו ב אנקונא דהיינו השערי צדק והבהיר וקצת מדרש רות : הקצת האחר והפירוש מהתפלות כתבם לי ר' נתנאל צבע מע' סוברינו שהיה דר באנקונא : אמנם הפירוש המצות שחברם הר' מנחם מריקנטי זלה"ה שחברם של דרך הנסתר גם פי' ברכת המזום על דרך נסתר כתבתים אני יצחק הנז' בעבורי ובעבור זרעי וכו'. f. 133r

References

[Shaare_orah_1959]
ff. 40r-50v
Title: Sefer ha-bahir
Title: ספר הבהיר

Many corrections supplied in the margin.

References

[Bahir_1820]
ff. 50v-71r
Title: Zohar ḥadash (Midrash Rut)
Title: זהר חדש (מדרש רות)
Filiation: Cf the contents of Add MS 27009, II (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. 751.).

Some notes are given in the margin, including a few in Latin.

Language(s): Jewish Babalonia Aramaic
ff. 71r-100r
Title: Perush tefilot
Title: פרוש התפלות

The work stems from Abraham Abulafia's school. See [Idel_1976] 77 and p. 84 nn. 38 & 39.

There is a title "Expositio orationum p Cabala."

Two complete wheels with Hebrew letters and words (for permutations) are placed at the beginning, folio 71r & 72r.

ff. 100r-131v
Title: [Sefer ta῾ame mitsṿot]
Title: טעמי המצוות
Author: Recanati, Menahem ben Benjamin, active 13th century-14th century רקנטי, מנחם בן בנימין

A number of passages have been added in the margin, and there are some marginal Latin notes.

Folios 100r-101r contain an index of the commandments dealt with, the number being 102.

References

[Mitsvot_Rekanati_1581]
ff. 131v-133ר
Title: Perush birkat ha-mazon
Title: פרוש ברכת המזון
Author: Recanati, Menahem ben Benjamin, active 13th century-14th century רקנטי, מנחם בן בנימין
ff. 133r-135v
Title: Yiḥud na᾿eh
Title: ייחוד נאה
Author: Ibn Waqār, Joseph ben Abraham, active 14th century יוסף בן אברהם אבן וקאר

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 135 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 217 × 153 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

135 folios (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

All the leaves too closely cut.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 40

Written lines: 40

Uniform layout.

Complete hard-point ruling visible.

Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable.

Initial words in sections in larger characters.

Many additions and comments in the margin.

Catchwords on every verso (those at the end of quires distinguished by a special mark).

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive scripts of the 15th century. Yitsḥaḳ ben Ya῾aḳov Tsarfati of Ancona: inscribed in the colophon, folio 133r.

ff. 57v-101r
written by the second scribe, Natan᾿el Tseva῾ of Severino: inscribed in the colophon, folio 133r.

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather, with golden tooling.

Spine: 'Cabbalistic Works. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 16,407.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Italy, Central (Ancona)

Provenance and Acquisition

Payne & Foss: purchased by the British Library on 09 January 1847: inscribed, folio 135v. Formerly from the Rezzi Collection.

1847-01-09

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

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_16407 (digital images currently unavailable)

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. 743.

Bibliography

    [Shaare_orah_1959] גיקטליי"א, יוסף, and Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla. 'Sefer Shaʻare Orah : Mafteaḥ Gadol u-Meʾir ʻenayim Ba-Ispaḳlarya Ha-Meʾirah Be-Ḥokhmat Ha-Ḳabalah / Matityah Delaḳraṭ Hotsi Taʻalumato ʻa.y Beʾur.'ירושלים: מעטייה 1959 or 1960, Yerushalayim, 1959.
    [Bahir_1820] ha-Kanah, active 1st century Neḥunya ben. 'Sefer Ha-Bahir.'Lemberg?, c1820?, 1820.
    [Idel_1976] אידל, משה. 'כתבי ר’ אברהם אבולעפיה ומשנתו / ... מאת משה אידל.'חמו"ל, 1976.

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