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Record Id:
032-003368825
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Add MS 27026
Title:
Or yaḳar (Raʿaya mehemana)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
212 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1587
End Date:
1587
Date Range:
1587
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Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Cordovero, Moses ben Jacob, 1522-1570
Cordovero, Moses ben Jacob, 1522-1570
Giuseppe Almanzi
Ya῾aḳov Pogeṭṭi
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Add MS 27026

Or yaḳar (Raʿaya mehemana)

Contents

A commentary on the Zohar, Raʿaya mehemana.

Language(s): Aramaic of the Zohar

ff. 1r-212v
Title: Or yaḳar (Raʿaya mehemana)
Title: אור יקר (רעיא מהימנא)

The volume contains gate 1 (folio 2r), 2 (folio 58r) and 3 (folio 135v). It begins with folio 114r of the Zohar (volume 2, in Mishpaṭim).

The text of the Zohar is given on the inner part of a page where it occurs, and the commentary is written in continuous order on the top, bottom, and outer side of the page.

Thre are marginal notes in an Italian cursive hand of apparently the 17th century on folios 2v-5r.

Author: Cordovero, Moses ben Jacob, 1522-1570 קורדוברו, משה, 1522-1570
Colophon: שלם ע"י הצעיר תולעת יעקב בכמ' מרדכי פוייטייצ"ו פה אסטי שנת ש'מ'ח'ה' [=שמ"ח] לאיש ט'ו'ב' כסלו. f. 212v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the second half of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 212 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 225 × 155 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

212 folios (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 5 at the end).

Original Hebrew foliation.

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Condition

Ink-stained margins.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 33

Written lines: 33

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every page.

Initial words in larger characters.

Running titles.

A number of marginal notes and comments.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive and cursive scripts of the second half of the 16th century. Ya῾aḳov Pogeṭṭi: inscribed with his initials, folio 2r, and with his name, folio 212v.

Additions:

Folio 1r-1v contain a list of commandments treated in the volume.

Folio 2r: a scribal entry within an oblong design.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Moses Cordovero. Or Yakar. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,026.'

History

Origin: 1587 Italy, N. (Asti)

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 132: 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 (iii)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

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27026 (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. 779.

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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