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032-003368392
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Add MS 27180
Title:
Kabbalistic collectaneum
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
61 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27180 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1300-1499
Era:
CE
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Names:
Abraham ben David, of Posquieres, c 1125-1198
Abraham ben David, of Posquieres, c 1125-1198
Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, 1240-1292
Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, 1240-1292
Barukh Galiko
Clemente Renatto
Giuseppe Almanzi
Mosheh
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Add MS 27180

Kabbalistic collectaneum

Contents

A collection of kabbalistic texts.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-2r
Language(s): Hebrew
Title: ספר יצירה
Title: Sefer Yetsirah

These two folios contain only a small fragment of the book.

Incipit: חבב שביעי תחת השמים: פרק ה': שתים עשרה פשוטות וכו'. f. 1r
Explicit: זה ספר של אברהם אבינו ע"ה הנק' ספר יצירה. כל המעיין בו אין שיעור לחכמתו וכל המתעסק בו ולומר בחכמתו כן ויודע סודותיו יתגלו לו סודות העולם העליון ועולם התחתון ומובטח לו שהוא בין העולם הבא. כבורך ייי'. f. 2r

Sefirotic tree, ink drawing with a commentary.

ff. 8v-9r

References

[Hayman_2004]
ff. 2v-9v
Title: Perush sefer yetsirah
Title: פרוש ספר יצירה

A part of an exposition of the '32 paths' taken from the introduction to the commentary.

On folio f. 39r there is a poem beginning‘מזמור ליום שבת עונג ונופש’, with two short lines beginning: ‘אות וברית עולם’at the head.

Author: Abraham ben David, of Posquières אברהם בן דוד, מפוסקיר, ראב"ד
Incipit: מפי חכמים הקדומים וכו' f. 2v
ff. 10r-38v
Title: Sefer temunot
Title: ספר תמונות
Author: Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, 1240-approximately 1292 אבולעפיה, אברהם בן שמואל

Only part 3 and 4 of the book is given here.

Filiation: Cf. Harley MS 1204, 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. 758.
ff. 39v-61r
Title: Perush shiv῾im u-shenayim shemot
Title: פרוש שבעים ושנים שמות
Author: \Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, 1240-approximately 1292 (or his school)/ אבולעפיה, אברהם בן שמואל\/

References

[Sefer_Raziel_1701]

Physical Description

Parchment and paper codex; Spanish and Italian semi-cursive script.
Form: codex
Material: mixed
Support: Parchment and paper codex
Extent: 61 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 216 × 155 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 105 mm.
Foliation:

61 folios (+ 4 unfoliated flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end of the manuscript).

Collation

Quires mostly of 8 leaves.

Additional 7 paper leaves at the beginning of the manuscript.

Layout

Columns:1 3

Ruled lines: 29

Written lines: 29

Text written in one to three columns, with 24 to 29 columns to a page.

Hand(s)

Spanish and Italian semi-cursive script. Mosheh: inscription in a form of acrostic beginning: מזמר ליום שבת עונג ונופש, folio 39r; Italian semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

ff. 1r-2r
Italian/Byzantine semi-cursive of approximately 15th century

ff. 2v-7r
Spanish semi-cursive of approximately 15th century

ff. 8r-61v
Italian/Byzantine semi-cursive of approximately 15th century

Decoration

Sefirotic tree.

ff. 8v-9r
Sefirotic tree, ink drawing with a commentary.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house, black buckram.

History

Origin: 1300-1499 14th-15th century Italy?

Provenance and Acquisition

Number of personal notes, written in a later hand, on f. 7v: בשנת תל"ב ביום ש"ק שמנה עשר לחדש אלול נפטר לעולמו כבוד א"א ז"ל

Barukh Galiko, inscribed with his name on folio 39r: להו': קניתיהו אני ברוך גאליקו מיד כמהח"ר משלם סלם יצ"ו

Clemente Renatto, his name signed on folio 38v.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 290: 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] 131-163; 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

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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. 733.
    [Almanzi_1864]

Bibliography

    [Hayman_2004] 'Sefer Yesira: Edition, Translation and Text-Critical Commentary'. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004.
    [Sefer_Raziel_1701] Judah, of Worms Eleazar ben, and of Neustadt Isaac ben Abraham. 'Zeh Sifra De-Adam Ḳadmaʾah She-Natan Lo Raziʾel Ha-Malʾakh : Sefer Raziʾel Ha-Gadol / [She-Hevi Le-Defus Yitsḥaḳ Ben Avraham].'אמשטרדם, תסא, Amśṭerdam, 461 1701, 1701.
    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).
    [Almanzi_1864] אלמנצי, יוסף, and Giuseppe Almanzi. 'Yad Yosef : ... Ṿe-Hi Reshimat Sifre Ha-Bibliʾoṭeḳ / ... Asaf Ṿe-Ḳibets ... Yosef Almantsi Melekhet Yedido Shemuʾel Daṿid Lutsaṭo.'Padoue, 1864.

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