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Add MS 26972

Record Id:
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Add MS 26972
Title:
Abraham Azulai's kabbalistic writings
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
138 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1799
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1799
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Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
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Names:
Azulai, Abraham ben Mordecai, 1570-1643
Azulai, Abraham ben Mordecai, 1570-1643
Giuseppe Almanzi
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Add MS 26972

Abraham Azulai's kabbalistic writings

Contents

Kabbalistic writings of Abraham Azulai.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-138v
Title: Ma῾aseh ḥoshev
Title: מעשה חושב

See further [Sefunot] 16 (1980), pp. 201.

Author: Azulai, Abraham ben Mordecai, 1570-1643 אזולאי, אברהם בן מרדכי
Colophon: והיה זה ביום ראשון בשב' ז' לחדש אייר דהאי שתא שנת ואני ע'ל'י'ך' ב'ט'ח'ת'י' [=תקנ"ט] [...] נאם החותם פה ליוורנו יע"א [...] דויד [...] בלא"א יאודה אצאיולי ס"ט. f. 138r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 138 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 148 × 100 mm.
Dimensions (written): 125 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

138 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Original Hebrew foliation.

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Condition

Haloing ink.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21

Written lines: 21

Uniform layout.

Initial words in larger characters.

Coloured edges.

Catchwords on every page.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script of the 18th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Abr. Azulai. Ma'ase Chosheb. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,972.'

History

Origin: 1799 Italy (Livorno)

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 83: 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_26972 (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. 859.

Bibliography

    [Sefunot] מכון בן צבי (ירושלים). 'ספונות ספר שנה לחקר קהילות ישראל במזרח.'מכון בן צבי לחקר קהילות ישראל במזרח, 1957.
    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

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