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Add MS 26930
Title:
A collection of kabbalistic texts
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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144 folios
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Hebrew
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Start Date:
1581
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1581
Date Range:
1581
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CE
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Names:
Abraham ben Isaac, of Granada, 1300-1399
Abraham ben Isaac, of Granada, 1300-1399
Alkabeẓ, Solomon ben Moses, 1505-1576
Alkabeẓ, Solomon ben Moses, 1505-1576
Giuseppe Almanzi
Ḳatsenelenboigen, Shemuʼel Yehudah, 1521-1597
Ḳatsenelenboigen, Shemuʼel Yehudah, 1521-1597
Molkho, Shelomoh ben Daṿid, 1715-1788
Molkho, Shelomoh ben Daṿid, 1715-1788
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Add MS 26930

A collection of kabbalistic texts

Contents

A collection of kabbalistic texts.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-1r
Title: Tefilah le-shalom Leonora di Asti
Title: תפלה לשלום ליאונורה די אסטי

Dated [5]341 (1581), Ferara.

ff. 2r-2v
Title: Sod sefirat ha-῾omer
Title: סוד ספירת העמר
ff. 3r-83v
Title: Berit ha-Leṿi
Title: ברית הלוי
Author: Alkabeẓ, Solomon ben Moses, ha-Levi, 1505-1576 אלקבץ, שלמה בן משה הלוי
ff. 84r-140v
Title: Berit ha-menuḥah
Title: ברית מנוחה
Author: Abraham ben Isaac, of Granada אברהם בן יצחק מרמון ספרד

Incomplete at the beginning.

ff. 141v-142r
Title: Igeret ῾inyan hanaḥat tefilin be-minḥah
Title: אגרת ענין הנחת תפלין במנחה
Author: Ḳatsenelenboigen, Shemuʼel Yehudah, 1521-1597 קצנלבויגן, שמואל יהודה בן מאיר

A letters addressed by Ḳatsenelenboigen to Menahem Porto concerning the wearing of tefilin at the minḥah prayer.

ff. 143r-143v
Title: Sefer ha-mefo᾿ar
Title: ספר המפואר
Author: Molkho, Shelomoh ben Daṿid, approximately 1715-1788 מולכו, שלמה בן דוד

A fragment only. At the end, folio 143v, there is a note regarding a dream question (she᾿elat ḥalom).

f. 145r
Title: Noten teshu῾ah
Title: נותן תשועה

A prayer to 'Our Lord, the Duke', apparently the Duke Alphonso of Ferara, whose sister Leonora d'Este is mentioned in a prayer on folio 1r above.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 144 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 207 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 75 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of 10 to 12 leaves each.

Condition

Water-damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 30

Written lines: 30

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

Headings and initial words in larger square characters.

Additions and comments in the margin.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive scripts of the 16th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Solomon Ibn Al-Kabits. Berith Hal-Levi. Etc. Hebr. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,930.'

Accompanying Material

First back flyleaf, [145v]: a small piece, originally coming from a Latin manuscript, pasted in the left-hand lower corner.

History

Origin: 1581 Italy (Ferrara)

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 38: 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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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. 835.

Bibliography

    [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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