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Add MS 27019

Record Id:
032-003368829
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Add MS 27019
Title:
Kabbalistic works of Aaron Berechiah of Modena
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
140 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1500-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Aaron Berechiah ben Moses, 1549-1639
Aaron Berechiah ben Moses, 1549-1639
Aaron Berechiah of Modena
Camillo Jaghel
Giuseppe Almanzi
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 27019

Kabbalistic works of Aaron Berechiah of Modena

Contents

A collection of kabbalistic works of Aaron Berechiah of Modena, partly an autograph.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-140v
Title: Ḳovets ḥibure Aharon Berakhiah mi-Modena
Title: קובץ חבורי אהרן ברכיה ממודינא

See [Tishby_1974] 16.

Author: Aaron Berechiah ben Moses, of Modena, 1549-1639 מודניא, אהרן ברכיה בן משה
ff. 2r-110v
Title: Ḳitsur Pardes rimonim
Title: קצור פרדס רמונים
ff. 111r-124r
Title: Hagahot ῾al ῾asis rimonim
Title: הגהות על עסיס רמונים
ff. 125r-140v
Title: Mafteḥot le-Zohar
Title: מפתחות לזהר

See also [Gries_1987] 554-555.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th to 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 140 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 195 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 165 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Condition

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 31

Written lines: 31

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

Runing headings.

Headings and initial words in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive scripts of the 16th to 17th century. Aaron Berechiah of Modena: responsible for folios 2r-110v.

ff. 110v-140v
due to a different Italian cursive hand of the same period.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Comm. on the Pardes Rimmonim. Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,019.'

History

Origin: 1500-1699 16th-17th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Camillo Jaghel: inscribed with his name, 1613 (folio 140v); see [Popper_1969] 50-56.

Part of Almanzi Coll.,125. Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; 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.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27019 (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. 833.

Bibliography

    [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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