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Add MS 27154
Title:
Derush nishmat ha-adam
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
14 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:
David Finzi
Giuseppe Almanzi
Moses Ḥayim Luzzatto
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
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Add MS 27154

Derush nishmat ha-adam

Contents

A kabbalistic treatise.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-14v
Title: Derush nishmat ha-adam
Title: דרוש נשמת האדם

There are comments by Moses ben Mordecai Zacuto in the margin.

Folio 14r contains an index, written in a different handwriting.

Author: Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542-1620 ויטל, חיים בן יוסף

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 14 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 230 × 165 mm.
Dimensions (written): 195 × 135 mm.
Foliation:

14 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Condition

Water-damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 31 37

Written lines: 31 37

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

Folio 2r is a title-page.

Additions and comments in the margin.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script of the 18th century. Perhaps written by Moses Ḥayim Luzzatto (the handwriting is similar to Add MS 27110, 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. 824).

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Derush Nishmath Ha-Adam. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,154.'

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

David Finzi: inscribed, folio 1v.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 264: 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 (ii)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_27154 (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. 816.

Bibliography

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

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