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Add MS 27063
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- Add MS 27063
- Title:
- Or yaḳar (Be-midbar) by Moses Cordovero
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- Extent:
- 156 folios
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- Start Date:
- 1582
- End Date:
- 1587
- Date Range:
- 1582-1587
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Add MS 27063
Or yaḳar (Be-midbar) by Moses Cordovero
Contents
A commentary on the Zohar, Numbers.
Language(s): Aramaic of the Zohar
ff. 1r-156vTitle: Or yaḳar (Be-midbar)Title: אור יקר (במדבר)The colophon on folio 145v has been crossed out. The colophon at the end (folio 277v) combines the author's colophon with the entry of the scribe, copied from another manuscript.
Colophon: היום ילדתיהו אני הצעי' משה בן לא"א הר' יעקב קורדואירו בחדש אדר ראשון משנת השכ"ג ליציר' פה צפת תות"ב, ונשלם ההעתק' ר"ח ניסן השמ"ז. f. 277vColophon: תם ונשלם ת"ל ע"י הצעיר שלמה בכמ' שמואל מרושינה זצל לכבוד והדר המשכיל דורש אלקי' כמה' יעקב פוייט' יצ"ו פה אסטי י"ח כסלו שמ"ב. f. 145vPhysical Description
Paper codex of the second half of the 16th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport:Extent: 156 foliosDimensions (leaf): 270 × 205 mm.Dimensions (written): 185/230 × 155/180 mm.Foliation:156 folios (+3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end). Folio 1 is a paper flyleaf.
Collation
Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.
Original Hebrew foliation, 1-134 (agreeing with folios 12-145).
Condition
Stained.
Layout
Columns:1 2
Ruled lines: 5 33
Written lines: 5 33
Uniform layout. Text and commentary mostly written in parallel columns.
Visible hard-point ruling.
Catchwords on every verso.
Initial words in larger square characters.
Running titles.
A number of marginal notes and comments.
Folios 6, 8-11 blank.
Hand(s)
Italian cursive scripts (for the main text and for the commentary) of the second half of the 16th century. Ya῾aḳov ben Mordekhai Pogeṭṭi: inscribed in the colophon, folio 145v. Shelomoh ben Shemu᾿el: inscribed in the colophone, folio 145v.
ff. 1r-146r: the commentary on these folios probably written by Shelomoh ben Shemu᾿el. The rest of the manuscript written by Ya῾aḳov ben Mordekhai Pogeṭṭi.Additions:Binding
BM/BL in-house.
Spine: 'Moses Cordovero. Or Yakar. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,063.'
History
Origin: 1582-1587 Italy, N. (Asti and Ferrara)Provenance and Acquisition
Censored by Boniforte del Asinary: Italian censor (active 1575-1599 in Asti): inscribed with his name: 'Visto et coretto per me Boniforte del Asinary' (folio 145v); see [Popper_1969] V.
Censored by Hieronimus Carolus: inscribed with his name: 'Inqu. Asti. Die 19 Febr. 1582' (folio 145v).
Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 168: 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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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27063 (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. 776.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).Funding of Cataloguing
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