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Title:
Kabbalistic works by Ḥayim Vital
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
121 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Start Date:
1575
End Date:
1597
Date Range:
1575-1597
Era:
CE
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Names:
Aless[andro] Scipione
Dominico Irosolomitano
Eliyah of Fano
Ezra of Fano
Giovanni Domenico Carretto
Giuseppe Almanzi
Shelomoh of Parmigiani (?)
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
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Add MS 27186

Kabbalistic works by Ḥayim Vital

Contents

A collection of works by Ḥayim Vital.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-121v
Title: Ḳovets mi-kitve yad rabi Ḥayim Vital
Title: קבץ מכתבי רח"ו

On this manuscript see [Avivi_2008] 301-303, vol. 1; [Avivi_1984] 104.

Folios 5r-55v - Derush Adam ḳadmon (folios 5r-38r in the handwriting of Ezra of Fano).

Folios 56r-77v - Sodot.

Folios 78r- 87v - Kaṿanot ha-tefilah ṿe-minhage ha-Ar"i (in the handwriting of Ezra of Fano, with additions from the manuscripts of Menahem Azariah of Fano and Nathan Ottolenghi).

Folios 88r-109r - Derushim ṿe-kaṿanot nosafim le-rabi Ḥayim Vital.

Folios 110r-121v - Liḳute be-ḳabalah me-et ḥakhme Tsefat (e.g., Abraham Galante, Moses Cordovero, Joseph Ashkenazi, etc.).

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

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 121 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

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

Original Hebrew foliation.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Stained.

Much water-damaged with occasional loss of text.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 29 38

Written lines: 29 38

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

Additions and comments in the margin.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive scripts of the 16th century. Ezra of Fano: folios 5r-38r.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Derush Adam Kadhma'ah. Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional MS. 27,186.'

History

Origin: 1575-1597 Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

An entry of sale between the inheritants of Eliyah of Fano and Shelomoh of Parmigiani (?): folio 5r.

Censored by Dominico Irosolomitano, Italian censor (active 1575-1624): inscribed with his name (folio 121v); see [Popper_1969] 61, and appendix § 62-74.

Censored by Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (active 1600-1624): inscribed with his name, 1623 (folio 38r, 55v, 87v, 109r, 121r); see [Popper_1969] 100-101, and appendix § 80-84.

Censored by Alessandro Scipione, Italian censor (fl. 1575-1599): inscribed with his name, 1597 (folio 121v).

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 296: 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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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. 804.

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.
    [Avivi_1984] Avivi, Joseph. “The writing of Rabbi Isaac Luria in Italy before 1620 / כתבי האר"י באיטליה עד שנת ש"פ.” 'Alei Sefer: Studies in Bibliography and in the History of the Printed and the Digital Hebrew Book / עלי ספר: מחקרים בביבליוגרפיה ובתולדות הספר העברי המודפס והדיגיטלי'11 (1984): 91–134.
    [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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