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Add MS 27014
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- Add MS 27014
- Title:
- A collection of kabbalistic treatises
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
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- Extent:
- 219 folios
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27014 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
- Scripts:
- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1548
- End Date:
- 1548
- Date Range:
- 1548
- Calendar:
- Hebrew
- Era:
- CE
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- Names:
- Giuseppe Almanzi
Recanati, Menahem ben Benjamin, 1200-1399
Recanati, Menahem ben Benjamin, 1200-1399
Shemu᾿el [ben Yeḥiel Nisim]
Ya῾aḳov
Yosef ben Sheraga, 1400-1499
Yosef ben Sheraga, 1400-1499 - TEI:
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Add MS 27014
A collection of kabbalistic treatises
Contents
A collection of kabbalistic treatises.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-219vTitle: Ḳovets be-ḳabalahTitle: קובץ בקבלהFiliation: Cf. the manuscripts written by the same scribe, e.g., MS New York JTS 1892.Colophon: אני שמואל [?] בן לא"א החכם השלם [יחיאל נסים] מפיסה יצ"ו כתבתי זה הספר לבקשת אהובי היקר אשר נפשי קשורה בנפשו ואהבת עולם אהבתיהו האלוף כבוד בכמה"ר יעקב [?] יצ"ו המיוחס לבית אבותיו החסידים ואנשי מעשה בני [...] יצו' היום יום א ב' ימי' לחדש טבת שנת ש"ח פ' ואזכור את בריתי פה פיסה הקדומה היושבת בגליל טוסקאנה. f. 209rff. 2r-66vTitle: Perush ha-tefilotTitle: פרוש התפלותContains Perush ha-berakhot, folios 33v-56v, Sod ha-miḳveh, folios 57r-60v, ῾Inyan ha-malḳut, folios 60v-63r, ῾Inyan ha-tsedaḳah, folios 63r-65v, ῾Inyan ha-keritot, folios 65v-66v, all by the same author.
ff. 67r-166rTitle: Ta῾ame ha-mitsṿotTitle: טעמי המצוותff. 166v-210rTitle: Perush ha-tefilotTitle: פרוש התפלותff. 211r-218vTitle: Perush ha-tefilotTitle: פרוש התפלותFolio 218v: contains the beginning of Perush ha-berakhot of the same author.
Folio 219r: a piece on the meaning of letters.
Physical Description
Paper codex of the 16th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport:Extent: 219 foliosDimensions (leaf): 215 × 160 mm.Dimensions (written): 140 × 80 mm.Foliation:219 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Collation
Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.
Condition
Stained.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 22 29
Written lines: 22 29
Uniform layout.
Catchwords on every verso.
Initial words given in larger square characters.
Additions and corrections given in the margin.
Gilt edges.
Hand(s)
Italian cursive script of the 16th century. Shemu᾿el [ben Yeḥiel Nisim]: inscribed, folio 209r (the name in the colophon has been erased and reconstituted on the basis of MS New York JTS 1892).
ff. 2r-33rwritten in a different smaller, but contemporary Italian cursive.Binding
Pre-1600. Dark brown leather, blind- and gold-tooled.
Spine: 'Joseph Ibn Sheraga. Perush Hat-Tephilloth, Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,014.'
Accompanying Material
A small part of a parchment folio written in Latin stuck to the inner cover (perhaps more than one folio has been put inside the cover to secure the binding).
History
Origin: 1548 Italy (Pisa)Provenance and Acquisition
Ya῾aḳov: inscribed, folio 209r (the name in the colophon has been erased and reconstituted on the basis of MS New York JTS 1892).
Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 124: 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_27014 (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. 792.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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