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032-003369725
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Add MS 26953
Title:
Kabbalistic treatises
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
78 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1600-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
Luria, Isaac ben Solomon, 1534-1572
Luria, Isaac ben Solomon, 1534-1572
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
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Add MS 26953

Kabbalistic treatises

Contents

A collection of kabbalistic treatises.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-78v
Title: Ḳovets be-ḳabalat ha-Ar"i
Title: קובץ בקבלת האר"י
ff. 1r-50r
Title: Perush ha-Zohar (Sifra de-tseniʿuta)
Title: פרוש הזהר (ספרא דצניעותא)

Contains several additional notes by Moses ben Mordecai Zacuto.

Author: Luria, Isaac ben Solomon, 1534-1572 לוריא, יצחק (האר"י)
ff. 51r-78v
Title: Derush nishmat ha-adam
Title: דרוש נשמת האדם
Author: Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542-1620 ויטל, חיים בן יוסף

Contains several additional notes by Moses ben Mordecai Zacuto, e.g., 53v, and by Benyamin ben Eleazar ha-Kohen.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th to 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 78 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 154 × 100 mm.
Dimensions (written): 130 × 70 mm.
Foliation:

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

Original foliation in the right-hand upper corner of each recto.

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21 23

Written lines: 21 23

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every page.

Initial words given in larger characters.

Additions marked in the text with a pen and ink design, e.g., folio 53r, 53v, 55v, etc.

Folios 1 and 22 partly folded.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script of the 17th to 18th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Perush Siphra Di-Tseni'utha. Etc. Hebr. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,953.'

History

Origin: 1600-1799 17th-18th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 63: 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_26953 (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. 795.

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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