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Title:
Or yaḳar (Terumah-Tetsaṿe, Ṿa-yaḳhel) by Moses Cordovero
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
222 folios
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Start Date:
1590
End Date:
1590
Date Range:
1590
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Names:
Cordovero, Moses ben Jacob, 1522-1570
Cordovero, Moses ben Jacob, 1522-1570
Giuseppe Almanzi
Ya῾aḳov ben Mordekhai Pogeṭṭi
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Or yaḳar (Terumah-Tetsaṿe, Ṿa-yaḳhel) by Moses Cordovero

Contents

A commentary on the Zohar, pericope Terumah to Ṿa-yaḳhel.

Language(s): Aramaic of the Zohar

ff. 1r-222v
Title: Or yaḳar (Terumah-Tetsaṿe, Ṿa-yaḳhel)
Title: אור יקר (תרומה-תצוה, ויקהל)

Begins with pericope Terumah. A piece from Ṿa-yaḳhel (siman 5, Zohar 1:219b) is missing, as well as pericope Ki-tisa (see folio 146r and a marginal note from the scribe there).

Author: Cordovero, Moses ben Jacob, 1522-1570 קורדוברו, משה, 1522-1570

f. 139r, 179v, 186v, 205v diagrams.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the second half of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 222 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 340 × 240 mm.
Dimensions (written): 245 × 162 mm.
Foliation:

222 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 12 leaves each.

Condition

Stained.

Partly water-damaged.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 7 45

Written lines: 7 45

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Catchwords on every verso and ocassionally on some of the rectos.

Initial words in larger square characters.

A number of marginal notes and comments.

Folios 216v-218v blank.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive (for the main text) and small cursive (for the commentary) scripts of the second half of the 16th century. Ya῾aḳov ben Mordekhai Pogeṭṭi: inscribed in the colophon, folio 268v of volume II (Add MS 27065).

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Moses Cordovero. Or Yakar. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,058.'

Accompanying Material

Folios 219-222, originally from another manuscript (same handwriting as the rest of the volume), are appended.

History

Origin: 1590 Italy, N. (Asti)

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 163: 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 (ii)v.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27058 (digital images currently unavailable)

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. 774.

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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