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Title:
Moses Zacuto's kabbalistic writings
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
51 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1600-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
Zacuto, Moses ben Mordecai, 1620-1697
Zacuto, Moses ben Mordecai, 1620-1697
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Moses Zacuto's kabbalistic writings

Contents

Kabbalistic writings of Moses Zacuto.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-51v
Title: Shorshe ha-shemot
Title: שרשי השמות

The text was copied from a manuscript containing more extensive compositions by the same author, the pages of the fuller treatise having been indicated by the copyist (see e.g., folio 2r, 2v).

Folios 1r-3r: Kaṿanot shemot ha-Shem in various prayers. Folios 4r-35r: expositions of kabbalistic divine names in alphabetical order; the magic efficacy connected with the use of the names is often added. Folios 35r-36v: various vocalisations of the divine names. Folio 37r: a piece on writing a mezuzah according to the teachings of Ari. Folios 38r-39r: expositions of angelic names. Folios 39v-48r contain the commentary on 70 names of Metatron (sar ha-panim) from Nehemiah ben Shelomoh of Erfurt school. Folio 49r: a piece from Shimush Torah. Folios 49v-51r: another part of the book Shimush Torah.

Author: Zacuto, Moses ben Mordecai, 1620-1697 זכות, משה בן מרדכי

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 51 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 195 × 135 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

51 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 12 leaves each.

Condition

Much stained and water-damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 26 27

Written lines: 26 27

Uniform layout.

Section initials in larger characters.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Catchwords on every page.

Marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script of the 18th century.

Binding

Post-1600. Ivory parchment, blind tooled. Damaged.

Spine: 'Shorshe Hash-Shemoth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,171.'

Vellum binding wormed, holed and may be two layers – appears to be older than textblock; perhaps an old liturgical (Christian?) manuscript.

History

Origin: 1600-1799 17th-18th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 281: 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

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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. 854.

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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