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Or 11791
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- Commentaries on the Sefer Yetsirah
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- Extent:
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- Start Date:
- 1375
- End Date:
- 1499
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Or 11791
Commentaries on the Sefer Yetsirah
Contents
A collection of commentaries on the Sefer Yetsirah.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-42rTitle: פרוש ספר יצירהTitle: Perush Sefer yetsirahIn the manuscript (f. 42r): "פירוש ספר יצירה" "שפי’ הר’ יוסף הארוך על ידי משה בר’ יצחק".
About the real author, see Yosef Ashkenazi,
1. Perush sefer Yetsirah, a commentary on Sefer yetsirah by Joseph ha-Arokh; 2. Perush sefer yetsirah, by Isaac ben Abraham, the Blind. Copied in Italian hand of the 15th c by Moses ben Isaac.
Diagrams on ff. 4r, 6r, 6v, 19v, 20r, 36r, 40v; volvelles on f. 7v, 8v, 21v, 37r.
Colophon: סליק ליה פירוש ספר יצירה שפי' הר' יוסף הארוך - על ידי משה ב"ר יצחק ינעם בריך רחמנ' דסייע לעבדיה בר אמתיה f. 42rff. 43r-48rTitle: פרוש ספר יצירהTitle: Perush Sefer yetsirahIncipit: "פירוש ספר יצירה אשר פי’ החסיד רבי יצחק סגי נהור בן...אברהם בר’ דוד ז"ל מפושקראש"Explicit: "תם ונשלם וסליק ליה פי' סי' לחסיד הר' יצחק סגי נהור זלה"ה"ff. 48r-50rTitle: ליקוט על ספר יצירהTitle: Liḳuṭ ʿal Sefer yetsirahIncipit: "פירוש ספר יצירה אשר פי’ החסיד רבי יצחק סגי נהור בן...אברהם בר’ דוד ז"ל מפושקראש"Physical Description
Parchment codex of the 14th-15th century.Form: codexMaterial: parchmentSupport:Extent: 50 folios (iii+50+iv)Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 160 mm.Dimensions (written): 173 × 121 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.
Parallel pagination in Arabic numerals in ink, by an earlier hand (?): front flyleaf (iii) = p.215, f. 1 = page 216, f. 50= p. 265. It suggests that the manuscript was part of a larger volume.
F. 42v is blank.
Collation
5 quires of 10 leaves.
Catchwords at the end of the quires.
Condition
Holes on the parchment on ff. 5, 26 and 44.
Layout
Columns:1
Written lines: 38
Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.
Even left margins.
A few marginal notes.
Hand(s)
Italian semi-cursive script of the 14th-15th century.
Decoration
Manicula on f. 4v.
Additions:Binding
BM in-house.
Spine: 'Two Commentaries on Sēpher Yeṣīrāh. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. OR. 11,791.'
History
Origin: 1375-1499 Late 14th-15th century Italy(?)Provenance and Acquisition
The Arms stamped on old binding (preserved on the back pastedown) are those of Jacques Nicolas Colbert, Archbishop of Rouen (1654-1707), son of the famous Colbert.
The MS once belonged to Carol de Pradel, bishop of Montpellier, 1676-1696; see ownership inscription on back flyleaf (iii)r: 'ex libris Biblioteca D. D. Carol[...] De Pradel ep｢i｣s[co]pi Mont[...]. D. Ev. Ap. 10, 1780, From T.P. by S.H. [...]
Acquired by gift from the Inter-Allied Book-Centre, April, 1946; date of accession 31 July 1946: inscribed by J. Leeven on back flyleaf (i)v.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_11791 (digital images currently unavailable)
Bibliography
Scholem, Gershom, Origins of the Kabbalah, ed. R.J. Zwi Werblowsky (The Jewish Publication Society, Princeton University Press, 1987), pp. 224 n.48 and 257 n.125. .Schnytzer, Jonnie, 'Do not believe everything you read: a Kabbalistic case study' (https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts/articles/do-not-believe-everything-you-read) (accessed 6 March 2017).Funding of Cataloguing
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