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Add MS 26979
Title:
A collection of works in Lurianic kabbalah
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
174 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
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Add MS 26979

A collection of works in Lurianic kabbalah

Contents

A collection of works in Lurianic kabbalah.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-174v
Title: Ḳovets be-ḳabalat ha-Ar"i
Title: קובץ בקבלת האר"י
ff. 2r-157v
Title: Sefer ha-gilgulim
Title: ספר הגלגולים
Author: Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542-1620 ויטל, חיים בן יוסף

See [Avivi_2008] 708-710, vol. 2.

The volume contains 73 chapters, from chapter 36 on redacted by Nathan ben Reuven Shapira, with his comments, and additional glosses by Benyamin ha-Cohen, Moses ben Mordecai Zacuto, Jacob Zemah and others.

Folio 137v-139v contain notes on metempsychosis by Moses ben Mordecai Zacuto.

Folio 139v-158r contain Menahem Azariah of Fano's notes on metempsychosis under the heading ῾Inyane gilgulim, with an alphabetical index at the end.

ff. 158r-162v
Title: Peri ῾ets ḥayim
Title: פרי עץ חיים
Author: Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542-1620 ויטל, חיים בן יוסף

Contains only part four of the treatise, Sha῾ar ruaḥ ha-ḳodesh and Sha῾ar ha-nevu᾿ah (beginning on folio 161r).

157r-158r: a tabulation of prophetic powers by Nathan ben Reuven Shapira.

Folio 158r-161v: eight paragraphs quoted from works of Moses Cordovero.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th to 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 174 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 245 × 190 mm.
Dimensions (written): 210 × 135 mm.
Foliation:

174 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 24 25

Written lines: 24 25

Uniform layout.

Visible vertical hard-point ruling.

Catchwords on every pag or under every column.

Headings and initial words in larger characters.

Occasional additions and comments in the margin.

Hand(s)

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

Binding

Post-1600. Ivory leather. Slightly stained.

Spine: 'Isaac Loria. Sepher Hag-Gilgulim. Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,979.'

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 95: 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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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. 807.

Bibliography

    [Avivi_2008] Joseph Avivi, and יוסף אביב"י. 'Ḳabalat Ha-Ari / Yosef Avivi.'Yerushalayim: Mekhon Ben-Tsevi le-ḥeḳer ḳehilot Yiśraʾel ba-Mizraḥ, ירושלים, 2008.
    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

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