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Add MS 26929
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- Add MS 26929
- Title:
- A collection of kabbalistic texts
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 216 folios
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26929 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
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- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 1500-1599
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- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Add MS 26929
A collection of kabbalistic texts
Contents
A collection of kabbalistic texts.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-101vTitle: Or zaru῾aTitle: אור זרועThere are some additional comments and notes in the margin of the first part of the work. The commentary includes the festival prayers, a small portion of the Hagadah, and Pirḳe avot.
See further [Kiryat_Sefer] 4, pp. 320-322.
ff. 102r-103rTitle: Perush ehad yaḥid u-meyuḥadTitle: פרוש אחד יחיד ומיוחדSee further [Kiryat_Sefer] 48 (1973) , p. 174.
ff. 108v-112rTitle: Perush ῾eser sefirotTitle: פרוש עשר ספירותSee Scholem, 'Mafteaḥ Le-Perushim' 1933, p. 500 no. 11 and p. 508 no. 94.
ff. 112r-141rTitle: Ḥibur ῾al torat ha-sefirotTitle: חבור על תורת הספירותSee [Gottlieb_1976] 348.
ff. 141v-175vTitle: Zohar (Be-midbar, Shemot)Title: זהר (לקוטים מבמדבר, שמות)ff. 176r-216vTitle: Perush Sefer yetsirahTitle: פרוש ספר יצירהContains a number of additional comments in the margin. Ends with two lines of the commentary on the 42-Letter Divine Name.
Three circular revolving diagrams sewn to the leaves: folio 183r, 195v and 212r.
Physical Description
Paper codex of the second half of the 16th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport:Extent: 216 foliosDimensions (leaf): 305 × 200 mm.Dimensions (written): 220 × 130 mm.Foliation:216 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).
Hebrew foliation from folio 1-100 and on folio 143-174.
Collation
Quires of mostly 8 leaves each, marked by signatures in the right-hand upper corner of the first page.
Condition
Stained.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 36
Written lines: 36
Uniform layout.
Initial words in larger characters.
Visible hard-point ruling.
A number of marginal notes and comments.
Hand(s)
Sefardi semi-cursive script of the second half of the 16th century.
Binding
Pre-1600, brown blind-tooled leather, with remains of clasps. Boxed.
Spine: 'Mystic Works. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,929.'
History
Origin: 1500-1599 16th centuryProvenance and Acquisition
Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 37: 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, D., 'Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi' British Library Journal 12 (1997), pp. 131-153): inscribed, (inner back cover).
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
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_26929 (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. 771.Bibliography
Gershom Scholem. 'Mafteaḥ Le-Perushim ʿal ʿEser Sefirot'. Kiryat Sefer 10 (1933): 498-515.[Gottlieb_1976] גוטליב, אפרים. 'מחקרים בספרות הקבלה / ערך וההדיר יוסף הקר.'תל אביב: בית הספר למדעי היהדות ע"ש חיים רוזנברג - אוניברסיטת תל אביב, 1976.Funding of Cataloguing
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