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032-003368378
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Add MS 27142
Title:
A collection of kabbalistic treatises
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
110 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
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CE
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Names:
Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, 1240-1292
Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, 1240-1292
Camillo Jaghel
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,
Giuseppe Almanzi
Menahem, a student of Eleazar of Worms
מנחם (תלמידו של אלעזר מגרמיזא)
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Add MS 27142

A collection of kabbalistic treatises

Contents

A collection of kabbalistic treatises.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 2r-18r
Title: Perush hagadah shel Pesaḥ
Title: פרוש הגדה של פסח
Author: Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, 1248-1305 ג'יקטיליה, יוסף בן אברהם
Incipit: פי' הגדה לבעל התמונה. f. 2r

References

[Nefesh-Hakhamah_1608]
ff. 18v-36v
Title: Sodot be-ḳabalah
Title: סודות בקבלה
Explicit: פירוש פסוק "ויוקים ואנשי כוזיבא. f. 36v

References

[Nefesh-Hakhamah_1608]
ff. 37r-99r
Title: Imre shefer
Title: אמרי שפר
Author: Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, 1240-1292 אבולעפיה, אברהם בן שמואל
Incipit: אמרי שפר" מאת "זכריה. f. 37r

On this text see [Idel_1976] 21-24, and p. 52 n. 133.

The date of composition is given at the end of the treatise as 5051 (1291).

ff. 100v-102v
Title: Perush ῾eser sefirot
Title: פירוש עשר ספירות
Incipit: כלל אחד מעניין הקבלה. f. 100v
Incipit: אמשול לך משל מעניין הספי. f. 101v
Filiation: Cf. similar contents in Paris MS 821/4.

Number 2 in Gershom Scholem's list in Kiryat Sefer 10, p. 498.

ff. 102v-104v
Title: Divre Menaḥem: perush ῾eser sefirot
Title: דברי מנחם : פירוש עשר ספירות
Author: Menahem, a student of Eleazar of Worms מנחם, תלמידו של אלעזר מגרמיזא
Incipit: דברי ר' מנחם תלמיד הרב ר' אליעזר מגרמיישא זצ"ל. f. 102v

Number 50 in Gershom Scholem's list, Kiryat Sefer 10, p. 504.

ff. 104v-107r
Title: Perush ῾eser sefirot
Title: פרוש עשר ספירות
Incipit: עשר ספירות בלימה. f. 102v

Number 112 in Gershom Scholem's list, Kiryat Sefer 10, p. 510.

ff. 107r-108v
Title: Perush ῾eser sefirot
Title: פרוש עשר ספירות
Incipit: הספירה הראשונה מעשר ספירות נקראת כתר עליון לפי שהיא חזקת האמת. f. 107r

Number 100 in Gershom Scholem's list, Kiryat Sefer 10, p. 509.

ff. 108v-109v
Title: ῾Inyan Meṭaṭron
Title: ענין מטטרון
Incipit: קבלנו כי מטטרון שר הפנים ששמו כשם רבו הוא חנוך בן ירד. f. 107r

References

[Scholem_1948] 252-254.
ff. 109v-110v
Title: Perush Ṿa-῾oz panav yeshunah lefi ha-ḳabalah
Title: פרוש ועוז פניו ישונה לפי הקבלה
Incipit: אמרו בספר הבהיר מפני מה צדיק ורע לו. f. 109v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th to 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 110 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 217 × 163 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 107 mm.
Foliation:

110 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 1 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Condition

Many leaves water-damaged.

Slightly worm-eaten.

Folio 99 partly torn away.

Lacuna after folio 46.

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 26 32

Written lines: 26 32

Non-uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

A number of comments provided in the margin.

Catchwords on every verso.

Folio 1 is a title page, written in later hand.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive and cursive scripts of the 15th to 16th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Joseph Gikatilia. Comm. on the Haggadah, Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,142.'

History

Origin: 1400-1599 15th-16th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Camillo Jaghel: inscribed with his name (folio 98v); see [Popper_1969] 50-56.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile his manuscript no. 249; his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum through Asher & Co. 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

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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. 746.

Bibliography

    [Nefesh-Hakhamah_1608] Tov, de Leon Moses ben Shem. 'Ṿe-Zot Ha-Sefer Ha-Nefesh Ha-Ḥakhamah : ... Be-Veʾur Sodot ... / Ha-Rav Mosheh Bar Shem Ṭov Me-ʿir Leʾon.'בזילאה, שסח, Basle, 1608.
    [Idel_1976] אידל, משה. 'כתבי ר’ אברהם אבולעפיה ומשנתו / ... מאת משה אידל.'חמו"ל, 1976.
    [Scholem_1948] שלום, גרשם. 'ראשית הקבלה : <1150-<1250 / מאת גרשם שלום.'ירושלים ותל אביב: שוקן, 1948.
    [Popper_1969] William Popper. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.
    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

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