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032-003369743
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Title:
Collection of kabbalistic derushim
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
203 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
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 26980

Collection of kabbalistic derushim

Contents

A collection of kabbalistic derushim.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-62r
Title: Derushim meḳuvatsim
Title: דרושים מקובצים

A collection redacted by Menahem Azariah of Fano or one of his students. See [Sefunot] 19, p. 366 n. 40.

ff. 63r-67r
Title: Kaṿanat ha-tefilot
Title: כונת התפלות
Filiation: Cf. MS Moscow 473.

Perhaps stemming from the school of Moses ben Mordecai Zacuto.

ff. 70r-73v
Title: Segulot u-tefilot ῾al derekh ha-ḳabalah
Title: סגלות ותפלות על דרך הקבלה
ff. 74r-166v
Title: Gilgulim
Title: גלגולים
Filiation: Cf. the contents of MS Jerusalem Oct. 1097.

The text derives from the school of Israel Sarug. See [Avivi_1984] 116.

ff. 167r-203v
Title: Megaleh ῾amuḳot
Title: מגלה עמוקות

The text is based on Kanefe Yonah of Menahem Azariah of Fano and the writings of Ḥayim Vital.

Filiation: Cf. the contents of MS Montefiore 346.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 203 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 223 × 170 mm.
Dimensions (written): 175 × 120 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of 3 to 8 leaves each.

Condition

Water-damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 24 31

Written lines: 24 31

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

Headings and initial words in larger characters.

Additions and comments in the margin.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive scripts of the 17th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Isaac Loria. Cabbalistic Works. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,980.'

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 92: 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

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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. 826.

Bibliography

    [Sefunot] מכון בן צבי (ירושלים). 'ספונות ספר שנה לחקר קהילות ישראל במזרח.'מכון בן צבי לחקר קהילות ישראל במזרח, 1957.
    [Avivi_1984] Avivi, Joseph. “The writing of Rabbi Isaac Luria in Italy before 1620 / כתבי האר"י באיטליה עד שנת ש"פ.” 'Alei Sefer: Studies in Bibliography and in the History of the Printed and the Digital Hebrew Book / עלי ספר: מחקרים בביבליוגרפיה ובתולדות הספר העברי המודפס והדיגיטלי'11 (1984): 91–134.
    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

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