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Add MS 26985
Title:
Sefer ha-gilgulim
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
211 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1600-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
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Add MS 26985

Sefer ha-gilgulim

Contents

A recension of Sefer ha-gilgulim, with additional short pieces.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-211v
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.

Includes: a piece on metempsychosis, ascribed to Israel Sarug and transmitted by Menahem Azariah of Fano (folio 161v, headed ῾Inyane ha-gilgulim) and a commentary on Saba de-mishpatim concerning metempsychosis (folio 187r). Folios 190r-211v contain an alphabethical index of gilgulim.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th to 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 211 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 4 leaves each.

Condition

Slightly stained.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 27 30

Written lines: 27 30

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Catchwords on every page (or under each column if the page is divided).

Headings and initial words in larger characters.

Additions and comments in the margin.

Red edges.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive scripts of the 17th and 18th century.

ff. 1r-189v
: Italian cursive of the 17th century;
ff. 190r-211v
: Italian cursive of the 18th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Isaac Loria. Sepher Hag-Gilgulim. Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,985.'

History

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

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 97: 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.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26985 (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. 808.

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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