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Add MS 27141
Title:
Kabbalistic writings
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
114 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 27141

Kabbalistic writings

Contents

A series of prescriptions and notes according to the practical kabbalah.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-114v
Title: Ḳovets be-ḳabalah ma῾asit
Title: קבץ בקבלה מעשית

Folios 4r-27r: segulot u-refu᾿ot, i.e. a series of mystical and magical prescriptions. A number of alternative prescriptions are often given.

Folios 27r-80v: magical prescriptions and notes, some with connection to a dream request. Folio 75r begins an adaptation of Shemoneh ῾esreh. Notes and comments on names and letters of the alfabeth follow.

Folios 82v-95r: a section headed Sefer ha-ḥesheḳ (cf. Add MS 27120, folio 2r sqq), containing explanations and vocalisations of the divine names, a direction on writing an amulet, explanations of the angelic names.

Folios 95r-100r: a piece concerning the angels governing the days of the week.

Folios 100r to the end: a piece headed Shemot tehilim, on the practical use of the Psalms.

ff. 98v-99r
diagrams representing the seals of the angels, in pen and ink.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 114 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 178 × 135 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

114 folios (+ 15 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation

Quires of 8 leaves each.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 18 22

Written lines: 18 22

Uniform layout.

Initial words in large characters, parts of amulets written in the angelic alphabet (e.g., 41v, 44v).

Catchwords on every verso.

Diagrams, e.g., folio 42v, 46r, 58v, 73r, 86v, 98v-99r.

Maniculae, folios 34v, 112v.

Folio 3r is an unfinished title page, ornamented, in pen and ink.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script of the 18th century.

Binding

Post-1600. Ivory leather, partly damaged.

Spine: 'Seguloth Ve-Hashba'oth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,141.'

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 248: his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin dealer to the British Museum (see [Paisey_1997] 131-153): inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.

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_27141 (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. 845.

Bibliography

    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

Funding of Cataloguing

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