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Title:
Sefer Ge ḥizayon by Abraham Jagel
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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:
128 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
Jagel, Abraham ben Hananiah dei Galicchi, 1553-1622
Jagel, Abraham ben Hananiah dei Galicchi, 1553-1622
Joseph Almanzi
Luigi da Bologna
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Add MS 26963

Sefer Ge ḥizayon by Abraham Jagel

Contents

Ethical writing.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-128v
Author: Jagel, Abraham ben Hananiah dei Galicchi, active 16th century-17th century יגל, אברהם בן חנניה, 1553-1622
Title: Sefer Ge ḥizayon
Title: גיא חזיון

References

Jagel, active 16th century-17th century Abraham ben Hananiah dei Galicchi, and אברהם בן חנניה יגל. 'Sefer Ge Ḥizayon : ... Mashal u-Melitsa ... Nimtse Bi-Khetivat Yad b.ʿa.y.h.ḳ. Ḥevron ... / Ṿe-Hoʿataḳ Ṿe-Naʿaśah Lo Hagahot Ṿe-Heʿarot ... ʿal Yadi Ume-Iti Avraham Barukh Mani.'Na Amon Aleksandriyah: Farag Ḥayim Mizraḥi, 1880, נא אמון, 1880.
Yagel, Avraham ben Hananya. 'A Valley of Vision : The Heavenly Journey of Abraham Ben Hananiah Yagel / Translated from the Hebrew, with an Introduction and Commentary, by David B. Ruderman.'Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 128 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 190 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 130 × 85 mm.
Foliation:

128 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Condition

Imperfect at the end.

Some leaves mutilated.

Corroding ink.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21 22

Written lines: 21 22

Uniform layout.

Initial words in larger characters.

Some marginal notes.

Visible vertical pencil ruling.

Catchwords on every verso.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script of the 16th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Abraham Ben Jacob. Ge Hizzayon. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,963.'

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

F. 1: a list of post-Talmudic sages followed by a poem, given by Joseph Almanzi.

Ff. 3r-7v contain an index of the 168 sections of part II of the work, and ff. 8r-11r deal similarly with the 100 sections of part I.

Luigi da Bologna, a converted Jew working for the Inquisition as censor (active 1590-1610): inscribed with his name as: 'Visto per mi F. Luigi del 1600' (f. 128v); see [Popper_1969] 104, and appendix § 112-117.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 74: 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 (i)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

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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. 875.

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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