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Title:
Or yaḳar (Bereshit) by Moses Cordovero
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
112 folios
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Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1550
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1550-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Cordovero, Moses ben Jacob, 1522-1570
Cordovero, Moses ben Jacob, 1522-1570
Giuseppe Almanzi
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Or yaḳar (Bereshit) by Moses Cordovero

Contents

A commentary on the Zohar, pericope Bereshit.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-112v
Title: Or yaḳar (Bereshit)
Title: אור יקר (בראשית)

The volume combines two originally different manuscripts. Folios 1-76 comprise the commentaries on Tiḳune ha-Zohar 69 and 70 (at the end of Cordovero's commentary on the Zohar on Bereshit), and commentary on the Zohar on Bereshit, gate 1 part 1 to gate 5 part 6. There are some short lacunae in the middle of this part.

Folios 77-112 contain parts of the commentary on the Zohar on Bereshit, partly agreeing with the preceding portion of the manuscript, gate 4, parts 1-18.

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

Physical Description

Paper codex of the second half of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 112 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 255 × 195 mm.
Dimensions (written): 190 × 140 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 16 leaves each.

Condition

Stained.

Lacunae after folios 22, 32, 44, 52 and 60.

Incomplete at the beginning and at the end.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 32 38

Written lines: 32 38

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

A number of marginal notes and comments.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive (for the main text) and cursive (for the commentary) scripts of the second half of the 16th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Moses Cordovero. Or Yakar. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,067.'

History

Origin: 1550-1599 2nd half of the 16th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 172: 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

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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. 772.

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