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Collection of kabbalistic works
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75 folios
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1500
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1599
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Abraham ben Solomon Abulafia
Alkabeẓ, Solomon ben Moses, 1505-1576
Alkabeẓ, Solomon ben Moses, 1505-1576
Angelino, Josef, 1300-1399
Angelino, Josef, 1300-1399
Asher ben David, 1200-1299
Asher ben David, 1200-1299
Azriel, 1100-1199
Azriel, 1100-1199
Dominico Irosolomitano
Eleazar ben Judah, of Worms, c 1176-1238
Eleazar ben Judah, of Worms, c 1176-1238
Ezra ben Solomon, 1160-1238
Ezra ben Solomon, 1160-1238
Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, b 1248,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000435018569,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/51777166,
Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, b 1248,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000435018569,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/51777166,
Giovanni Domenico Carretto
Giuseppe Almanzi
Immanuel ben Solomon, 1265-1330
Menahem, a student of Eleazar of Worms
Shem Ṭov ben Ya῾aḳov di Faro
ha-Kohen, Jacob ben Jacob, 1200-1270,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/97324044,
ha-Kohen, Jacob ben Jacob, 1200-1270,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/97324044,
מנחם (תלמידו של אלעזר מגרמיזא)
שם טוב בן יעקב די פרו
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Add MS 27187

Collection of kabbalistic works

Contents

A collection of kabbalistic works and notes.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-2v
Title: Liḳutim be-ḳabalah, filosofiyah ve-῾od
Title: לקוטים בקבלה, פילוסופיה ועוד

Some notes and fragments on various topics, starting with a division of knowledge into seven branches.

ff. 3r-11r
Title: ῾Esrim ṿe-arba῾ah sodot
Title: עשרים וארבעה סודות
Author: Angelino, Josef, active 14th century אנג'לט, יוסף

See [Felix_1991] 12.

ff. 11v-16v
Title: Sefer ha-peli᾿ah
Title: ספר הפליאה (קטעים)

Contains the commentary on ten sefirot from Sefer ha-peli᾿ah. See Scholem, 'Mafteaḥ Le-Perushim' 1933, p. 507 no. 79 and [Oron_1977] 46.

ff. 17r-19r
Title: Ma᾿amarim be-ḳabalah
Title: מאמרים בקבלה
Filiation: Cf. [BL] Add MS 17807 (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 745).
ff. 19r-20v
Title: Zohar ḥadash (Midrash ha-ne῾elam)
Title: זהר חדש (מדרש הנעלם)
Incipit: כל הקורא ק"ש באותיותיה. f. 19r

A fragment only. See [Idel_1989] 73-87.

ff. 21r-23r
Title: Sidur shem ha-meforash : perush shem ben mem-bet
Title: סדור שם המפורש : פרוש שם בן מ"ב
Filiation: Cf. [BL] Add MS 27199 (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 737).
ff. 24r-27r
Title: Perush Sefer yetsirah
Title: פרוש ספר יצירה
Incipit: אמר ר' עקיבה שלש אמות אמ"ז כנגד אב"ג. f. 24r
Author: Jacob ben Jacob, ha-Kohen, -1270 יעקב בן יעקב הכהן

See Scholem, 'Tiḳunim ṿe-hearot' 1948, p. 256; [Abrams_1993] .

ff. 27r-28v
Title: Midrash Shim῾on ha-Tsadiḳ
Title: מדרש שמעון הצדיק

See [Scholem_1931b] 425; [Scholem_1948] 256, n. 3.

f. 29r
Title: Perush al perush ha-Torah le-Rab"a (Shemot 33:21)
Title: פרוש על פרוש התורה לראב"ע (שמות לג:כא)
Incipit: אהיה בחשבון מרובע ר"ל שתרבע כל אות מאותיותיו. f. 29r

Ascribed to Immanuel ben Solomon of Rome.

Filiation: Cf. [BL] Add MS 19788 (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 749).
f. 29v
Title: Sod ha-ta῾anit
Title: סוד התענית
Incipit: כבור ידעת כי התענית דומה לקרבן. f. 29v
ff. 30r-31r
Title: Perush ῾eser sefirot
Title: פרוש עשר ספירות
Incipit: כתר הבריכה העליונה אל מסלת שדה כובס. f. 30r

See Scholem, 'Mafteaḥ Le-Perushim' 1933, p. 504 no. 52.

ff. 31r-31v
Title: Sod ha-arba῾ah tsomot
Title: סוד הארבעה צומות
ff. 32r-33v
Title: Divre Menaḥem : perush ῾eser sefirot
Title: דברי מנחם : פרוש עשר ספירות
Author: Menahem (a student of Eleazar of Worms) מנחם (תלמידו של אלעזר מגרמיזא)

See Scholem, 'Mafteaḥ Le-Perushim' 1933, p. 504, no. 50 and 55.

Folios 33r-33v quote excerpts from Abraham of Cologne Keter shem ṭov, Cf. [BL] Add MS 15299 (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 752) and Or 1055 (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 756).

ff. 33v-39v
Title: Sodot ṿe-ma᾿amarim be-ḳabalah
Title: סודות ומאמרים בקבלה

Most of the pieces contained in this part of the manuscript were printed at the end of [Nefesh-Hakhamah_1608] .

ff. 40r-40v
Title: Ha-niḳud
Title: הנקוד (קטע)
Author: Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, 1248- ג'קטילה, יוסף בן אברהם

A fragment only.

Filiation: Cf. [BL] Or 1055 (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 756).
ff. 41r-43v
Title: Perush shem ben arba῾ otiyot
Title: פרוש שם בן ארבע אותיות
Incipit: סוד ה' ליריאיו ובריתו להודיעם, מי שהוא ירא ה'. f. 41r

See [Scholem_1930] 258, n. 14.

Filiation: Cf. [BL] Add 17807 (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 745).
f. 44r
Title: Zohar (Idra raba)
Title: זהר (אדרא רבא)

A fragment of Zohar, Idra raba, on pericope Naso.

ff. 44v-45v
Title: Sheloshah ῾asar koḥot
Title: שלשה עשר כוחות
Incipit: לך ה' הגדולה והגבורה [...] בענין הזה פירש המפרש וביאר עיקר כל ההויות הנכללות בספר מעשה בראשית. f. 44v

See [Verman_1992] .

Folio 45v, upper margin: Birkat shem ha-meforash.

ff. 46r-46v
Title: Perush ῾eser sefirot
Title: פרוש עשר ספירות
Author: Jacob ben Jacob, ha-Kohen, -1270 יעקב בן יעקב הכהן

See [Scholem_1927] 227-230.

ff. 47r-47v
Title: Perush ῾eser sefirot
Title: פרוש עשר ספירות
Incipit: הא לך תשובה נכונה ומספקת לכל איש משכיל. f. 47r
Author: Azriel, of Gerona, active 13th century עזריאל, מגרונה
ff. 50r-54r
Title: Sefer ha-yiḥud
Title: ספר היחוד
Author: Shem Ṭov ben Ya῾aḳov di Faro שם טוב בן יעקב די פרו
ff. 55r-62r
Title: Sefer ha-yiḥud
Title: ספר היחוד
Author: Asher ben David אשר בן דוד בן אברהם
Incipit: סוד ה' ובריתו להודיעם. קבלה בידינו מאבותינו ששם המפורש. f. 55r
Filiation: Cf. [BL] Add MS 15299 (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 752).
ff. 62r-64r
Author: Ezra ben Solomon, of Gerona, -1238 עזרא בן שלמה, מגרונה
Title: Sod ῾ets ha-da῾at
Title: סוד עץ הדעת

At the end, folios 63r-64r, there is a short piece from Asher ben David's 'Perush shem ha-meforash' and a fragment of 'Imre shefer' by Abraham ben Solomon Abulafia. See [Idel_1976] 53, n. 141; Scholem, 'Tiḳunim ṿe-hearot' 1948, p. 253.

ff. 64r-65v
Title: Yiḥud
Title: יחוד
Author: Eleazar ben Judah, of Worms, 1176-1238 אלעזר בן יהודה מגרמיזא
Filiation: Cf. [BL] Or 1055 (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 752).
ff. 65v-66r
Title: Perush ῾eser sefirot
Title: פרוש עשר ספירות
Incipit: מחשבה נק' ראשית ונק' יראה שנ' ראשית. f. 65v

See Scholem, 'Mafteaḥ Le-Perushim' 1933, p. 506 no. 75 and idem 'Tiḳunim ṿe-hearot' 1948, p. 253.

ff. 66r-67r
Title: Seder pe῾ulat ha-yetsirah
Title: סדר פעולת היצירה

See [Scholem_1930] 75-76.

ff. 67v-68r
Title: Tefilat Rav Ḥamnuna Sava
Title: תפלת רב המנונא סבא
Incipit: בא"י אמ"ה צור כל העולמים. f. 67v
Filiation: Cf. [BL] Add MS 15299 (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 752), Or 6577 (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 736), Add MS 27199 (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 737), folios 298v-302r.
ff. 69r-70v
Title: Liḳute haḳdamot le-ḥokhmat ha-ḳabalah
Title: לקוטי הקדמות לחכמת הקבלה
Author: Alkabeẓ, Solomon ben Moses, ha-Levi, 1505-1576 אלקבץ, שלמה בן משה הלוי (מיוחס לו)

See Scholem, 'Mafteaḥ Le-Perushim' 1933, p. 104.

At the top of folio 69r there is a continuation of the commentary on the Torah from folio 75r.

ff. 71r-75v
Title: Perush ha-Torah (Bereshit)
Title: פרוש התורה (בראשית)

Incomplete at the beginning. Breaks off with the pericope Toledot. Folio 75v contains a piece on the ten sefirot.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the early 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 75 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170/150 × 120/80 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Damaged.

Worm-eaten.

Too tightly bound.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 20 35

Written lines: 20 35

Non-uniform layout.

Catchwords on most of the versos.

Some additions and notes in the margin.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive scripts of the 16th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Kabbalistic Treatises. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,187.'

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Censored by Dominico Irosolomitano, Italian censor (active 1575-1624): inscribed with his name, 1597 (folio 68v); see [Popper_1969] 61, and appendix § 62-74.

Censored by Giovanni Domenico Carretto, Italian censor (active 1600-1624): inscribed with his name, 1619 (folio 68r); see [Popper_1969] 100-101, and appendix § 80-84.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 298: 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. 753.

Bibliography

    [Felix_1991] פליקס, איריס. 'פרקים בהגותו הקבלית של הרב יוסף אנג’לט / ... מאת איריס פליקס.'חמו"ל, 1991.
    Gershom Scholem. 'Mafteaḥ Le-Perushim ʿal ʿEser Sefirot'. Kiryat Sefer 10 (1933): 498-515.
    Gershom Scholem. 'Tiḳunim ṿe-hearot li-reshimat kitve ha-yad ha-ʿivriim be-Paris'. Kiryat Sefer 24 (1948): 250–257.
    [Oron_1977] אורון, מיכל. “הקנה והפליאה.,” 1977.
    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark
    [Abrams_1993] אברמס, דניאל. “פרוש האבוד לספר יצירה של רבי יעקב בן יעקב הכהן : מהדורה ביקורתית ומבוארת.,” 1993.
    [Scholem_1948] שלום, גרשם. 'ראשית הקבלה : <1150-<1250 / מאת גרשם שלום.'ירושלים ותל אביב: שוקן, 1948.
    [Nefesh-Hakhamah_1608] Tov, de Leon Moses ben Shem. 'Ṿe-Zot Ha-Sefer Ha-Nefesh Ha-Ḥakhamah : ... Be-Veʾur Sodot ... / Ha-Rav Mosheh Bar Shem Ṭov Me-ʿir Leʾon.'בזילאה, שסח, Basle, 1608.
    [Scholem_1930] Gershom Gerhard Scholem. 'Kitve-Yad Be-Ḳabalah Ha-Nimtsaʾim Be-Vet Ha-Sefarim Ha- Leʾumi Ṿeha-Universiṭaʾi Bi-Yerushala[y]Im / Teʾaram Ṿe-Ḥaḳaram Gershom Shalom ; Be-Hishtatfut Yiʹsʹsakhar Yoʾel.'Yerushalayim: Ḥevrah le-hotsaʾat sefarim ʿal-yad ha- Universiṭah ha-ʿIvrit, 1930.
    [Verman_1992] Mark Verman. 'The Books of Contemplation : Medieval Jewish Mystical Sources / Mark Verman.'Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.
    [Idel_1976] אידל, משה. 'כתבי ר’ אברהם אבולעפיה ומשנתו / ... מאת משה אידל.'חמו"ל, 1976.
    [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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