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Add MS 27143

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Add MS 27143
Title:
Sefer ha-kaṿanot
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
271 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
Yeshayah Yisrael Hezekiah Basan
Yosef Irgas
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Add MS 27143

Sefer ha-kaṿanot

Contents

A kabbalistic work of the school of Isaac Luria.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-271v
Title: Sefer ha-kaṿanot
Title: ספר הכונות
Author: Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542-1620 ויטל, חיים בן יוסף

A recension of Menachem Azariah of Fano, with commentaries of Moshe Zacuto, Nathan Shapira, Benjamin Cohen, Benjamin ha-Levi, and others. Preceded by a number of additional paragraphs with references to the folios of the main work (folios 2r-7v).

The comments are provided in the margin in various handwritings (folios 259r-261v contain additions of Joseph Irgas, in his owm handwriting). The title suggest that the manuscript was written by Menachem Azariah da Fano himself, but the handwriting seems to belong to Israel Yeshayah Norzi.

See further [Avivi_2008] 430-431.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 271 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145/155 × 85/110 mm.
Foliation:

271 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Original Hebrew folation in the left upper corner of every recto, pages 1-232, not including the blank leaves from folio 16 to 253. Folios 2-7 have been separately folioed.

Collation

Quires of mostly 16 leaves each.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 28

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

Initial words in square characters.

Folio 1 is a doodle page, in both Hebrew and Latin scripts.

A provisional diagram (unfinished?), folio 269r.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script of the 17th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Menachem Azariah. Sepher Hak-Kavvanoth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,143.'

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Yeshayah Yisrael Hezekiah Basan and Yosef Irgas: inscribed in a note and a record of purchase, folio 1r. Folio 14r contains an ornamented owner's signature too.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 250: 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_27143 (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. 838.

Bibliography

    [Avivi_2008] Joseph Avivi, and יוסף אביב"י. 'Ḳabalat Ha-Ari / Yosef Avivi.'Yerushalayim: Mekhon Ben-Tsevi le-ḥeḳer ḳehilot Yiśraʾel ba-Mizraḥ, ירושלים, 2008.
    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

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