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Title:
Collection of kabbalistic works
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Oriental Manuscripts
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139 folios
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Start Date:
1600
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1799
Date Range:
1600-1799
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CE
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Names:
Fano, Menahem Azariah, Italian rabbi, 1548-1620
Fano, Menahem Azariah, Italian rabbi, 1548-1620
Giuseppe Almanzi
Shemuel ibn Tibbon
Vidas, Elijah ben Moses de, 1500-1599
Vidas, Elijah ben Moses de, 1500-1599
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
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Add MS 26931

Collection of kabbalistic works

Contents

A collection of kabbalistic works.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 3r-61v
Title: Otsrot Ḥayim
Title: אוצרות חיים

Incomplete. Folios 3r-61v contain Derushe Adam ḳadmon as they appear in Sefer Otsrot Ḥayim.

Contains additions and glosses by Moses ben Mordecai Zacuto (marked as Ḳol Rama"z), Beyamin ha-Kohen and Nathan ben Reuben Shapira. The heading on folio 1 suggest that the work was written by a student of Nathan Shapira.

Author: Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542-1620 ויטל, חיים בן יוסף, 1542-1620

References

[Otsrot_Hayim_1783]
ff. 61v-96v
Title: Yiḥudim, sodot ṿe-minhagim leha-Ar"i
Title: יחודים, סודות ומנהגים להאר"י
Author: Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542-1620 ויטל, חיים בן יוסף, 1542-1620
Author: Vidas, Elijah ben Moses de, active 16th century וידש, אליהו בן משה

Folios 75r-77r: Kavanot ha-shofar; folios 77v-83r: Minhage ha-Ar"i; folios 83r-87v: Yiḥudim mi-tokh Sha῾ar ruaḥ ha-ḳodesh; folios 87v-96v: Sodot (by Eliyahu de Vidas).

ff. 97r-119v
Title: Perush ha-Zohar (Idrat Ha᾿azinu)
Title: פרוש הזהר (אדרת האזינו)
Author: Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542-1620 ויטל, חיים בן יוסף, 1542-1620

The commentary on a part of the Idrot, contained in Sefer ha-derushim of Hayim Vital. See further [Avivi_2008] 106-107, vol. 1.

Folios 116v-119v contain additional commentaries on several verses from the Bible.

ff. 120r-122r
Title: ῾Inyan arba῾ah yesodot
Title: ענין ארבעה יסודות
Author: Fano, Menahem Azariah da 1548-1620 מנחם עזריה בן יצחק ברכיה מפנו
ff. 122r-137v
Title: Otsrot Ḥayim
Title: אוצרות חיים
Author: Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542-1620 ויטל, חיים בן יוסף, 1542-1620

Incomplete, contains only the beginning of the work and some additional fragments.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th to 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 139 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

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

Original Hebrew foliation.

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 31

Written lines: 31

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

Additions and comments in the margin.

A number of pages left blank after folio 14r.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive scripts of the 17th to 18th century.

Additions:

Folio 135: a torn piece of paper pasted on a folio, irregularly written, with an admonition regarding settlement of property.

Folio 136: a piece of paper pasted on folio, with a short quotation from Ḥayim Vital.

Folios 138-139: contain part 2, chapters 19 to 29, of More nevukhim, in Shemu᾿el Ibn Tibbon's translation (originally part of a different manuscript, parchment, written in Sefardi semi-cursive of the 15th century). See more parts of this manuscript under Add MS 27010, 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. 827..

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Chaiyim Vital. Cabalistic Treatises. Hebr. Brit. Mus. Additional 26,931.'

History

Origin: 1600-1799 17th-18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 39: 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 (i)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. 803.

Bibliography

    [Otsrot_Hayim_1783] וויטל, חיים, and 1542 or Ḥayyim ben Joseph Vital. 'Sefer Otsrot Ḥayim / ... Ḥayim Ṿiṭal.'קארעץ, תקמג, Ḳorets 1783, 1783.
    [Avivi_2008] Joseph Avivi, and יוסף אביב"י. 'Ḳabalat Ha-Ari / Yosef Avivi.'Yerushalayim: Mekhon Ben-Tsevi le-ḥeḳer ḳehilot Yiśraʾel ba-Mizraḥ, ירושלים, 2008.
    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

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