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Add MS 27061
Title:
Or yaḳar (Tiḳune Zohar)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
242 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1582
End Date:
1582
Date Range:
1582
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CE
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Names:
Boniforte del Asinary
Cordovero, Moses ben Jacob, 1522-1570
Cordovero, Moses ben Jacob, 1522-1570
Giuseppe Almanzi
Hieronimus Carolus
Ya῾aḳov ben Mordekhai Pogeṭṭi
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Add MS 27061

Or yaḳar (Tiḳune Zohar)

Contents

A commentary on Tiḳune Zohar.

Language(s): Aramaic of the Zohar

ff. 1r-242v
Author: Cordovero, Moses ben Jacob, 1522-1570 קורדוברו, משה, 1522-1570
Title: Or yaḳar (Tiḳune Zohar)
Title: אור יקר (תקוני הזהר)

Notes on the subjects treated in the volume are found on folio 2r.

Filiation:

The volume is uniform with Add MS 27060 and begins where the other broke off, containing gates 6-10 of Bava ḳama.

Colophon: שלם ע"י הצעיר יעק[ב] בכמ"ר מרדכיהיום יום ד ט"ו לחדש אדר ראשון שנת השמ"ב ליצירה. f. 242r

References

[Tikune_Zohar_1867]

Physical Description

Paper codex of the second half of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 242 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 320 × 220 mm.
Dimensions (written): 230 × 125 mm.
Foliation:

242 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 14 at the end). Folios 1-9 are paper flyleaves.

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Original Hebrew foliation, from folio 10 onwards, extends from no. 283 to 515 (continuing the foliation of Add MS 27060).

Condition

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 40

Written lines: 40

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Catchwords on every verso.

Initial words in larger square characters.

Running titles.

A number of marginal notes and comments.

Folio 1-9 left blank.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script (for the main text and for the commentary) of the second half of the 16th century. Ya῾aḳov ben Mordekhai Pogeṭṭi: inscribed in the colophon, folio 242r.

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600. Dark red leather, blind tooled, with marks of clasps. Boxed.

Spine: 'Moses Cordovero. Or Yakar. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,061.'

History

Origin: 1582 Italy, N. (Asti)

Provenance and Acquisition

Censored by Boniforte del Asinary: Italian censor (active 1575-1599 in Asti): inscribed with his name: 'Visto et coretto per me Boniforte del Asinary' (folio 242r); see [Popper_1969] V.

Censored by Hieronimus Carolus: inscribed with his name: 'Inqu. Asti. Die 19 Febr. 1582' (folio 242r).

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 166: 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. 782.

Bibliography

    [Tikune_Zohar_1867] Elijah ben Solomon, of Vilna Abraham ben Elijah, and אליה בן שלמה. 'Sefer Tiḳune Ha-Zohar : ʿim Tiḳunim Mi-Zohar Ḥadash... / ʿim Beʾur Ha-Gra [Me]-Eliyahu Me-Ṿilna, ... Gam Beʾur Beno ... Avraham.'Vilna, 1867, וילנא, 1867, 1867.
    [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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