Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??


Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...

Add MS 27066

Record Id:
032-003369763
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003369763
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100041481533.0x000013
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 27066
Title:
Or yaḳar (Ṿa-yiḳra) by Moses Cordovero
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Hierarchy Tree:
[{ "id" : "032-003369763", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 27066: Or yaḳar (Ṿa-yiḳra) by Moses Cordovero" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-003369763
Is part of:
not applicable
Hierarchy:
032-003369763
Container:
not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
277 folios
Digitised Content:
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27066 (digital images currently unavailable)
Thumbnail:
Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1587
End Date:
1587
Date Range:
1587
Calendar:
Hebrew
Era:
CE
Access:

Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.

Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.

Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.

If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.

This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.

User Conditions:
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Cordovero, Moses ben Jacob, 1522-1570
Cordovero, Moses ben Jacob, 1522-1570
Giuseppe Almanzi
Ya῾aḳov ben Mordekhai Pogeṭṭi
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 27066

Or yaḳar (Ṿa-yiḳra) by Moses Cordovero

Contents

A commentary on the Zohar, Ṿa-yiḳra.

Language(s): Aramaic of the Zohar

ff. 1r-277v
Title: Or yaḳar (Ṿa-yiḳra)
Title: אור יקר (ויקרא)

The colophon at the end cominbes the author's colophon with the entry of the scribe.

Author: Cordovero, Moses ben Jacob, 1522-1570 קורדוברו, משה, 1522-1570
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. 277v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 2nd half of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 277 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 295 × 190 mm.
Dimensions (written): 220 × 130 mm.
Foliation:

277 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 4 at the end). Folio 1 is a paper flyleaf.

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Hebrew foliation, 1-279, is in places irregular.

Condition

Stained.

Water-damaged.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 7 40

Written lines: 7 40

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Catchwords on every verso.

Initial words in larger square characters.

Running titles.

A number of marginal notes and comments.

Diagrams, e.g., folio 178v, 180r, 233r.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive (for the main text) and small cursive (for the commentary) scripts of the second half of the 16th century. Ya῾aḳov ben Mordekhai Pogeṭṭi: inscribed in the colophon, folio 268v of volume II (Add MS 27065).

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Moses Cordovero. Or Yakar. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,066.'

History

Origin: 1587 Italy, N. (Asti)

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 171: 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

WARNING: Under current circumstances, not all items are available for consultation and orders can only be placed within Reading Rooms. Please contact Reading Room staff at the British Library for information on availability and for help with placing orders.

Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27066 (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. 775.

Bibliography

    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

Funding of Cataloguing

BL