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Add MS 27082
Title:
Ḳitsur sefer ha-derushim
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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:
49 folios
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Languages:
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Start Date:
1686
End Date:
1686
Date Range:
1686
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CE
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Names:
Eleazar Minz ha-Levi
Gisi (?) Yeshayah
Giuseppe Almanzi
Joseph Almanzi
Mas῾ud Sagi Nahor
Shemu᾿el Daṿid ben Yeḥiel Ottolenghi
מסעוד סגי נהור
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Add MS 27082

Ḳitsur sefer ha-derushim

Contents

An abridgement of a selection of kabbalistic derushim.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-49v
Title: Ḳitsur sefer ha-derushim
Title: קצור ספר הדרושים

On the authorship of this work see [Avivi_2008] 743-744, vol. 2, and also [Avivi_1984] 123 n85; [Kiryat_Sefer] 26 (1949), p. 188.

Folio 47r contains a prayer to be recited before studying, divine names, some adjurations and pieces of amulets, which were apparently copied from a prayer-book in possession of Moses Zacuto, in 1682 in Mantua.

Author: Mas῾ud Sagi Nahor מסעוד סגי נהור
Colophon: היום יום צום הרביעי [...] פרשת יפקוד ה' אלקי הרוחות [...] שנת ה'א'מ'ת' [...] ישובב כנסת ישראל אשר היא היום שכולה וגלמודה [...] קול פה דובר במר רוחו [...] נער ובער הצעיר שמואל דוד בכמר יחיאל אוטולינגו יצ"ו כותב. f. 45v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 49 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 245 × 170 mm.
Dimensions (written): 185 × 125 mm.
Foliation:

49 folios (+ 1 older and 3 modern unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Much stained and damaged by mold.

Slight marks of book worms.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 51 58

Written lines: 51 58

Uniform layout.

Headings and initial words in larger characters.

Additions and comments in the margin.

Folio 1 is an ornamented title-page.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive ans square scripts of the 17th century. Shemu᾿el Daṿid ben Yeḥiel Ottolenghi: inscribed in the colophon (folio 45v).

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Abridgement of the Derushim of Isaac Loria. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,082.'

History

Origin: 1686 Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Gisi (?) Yeshayah: inscribed in an ownership entry, front flyleaf (iv)v.

Eleazar Minz ha-Levi: inscribed in a record of purchase, dated 1856 (Austria), unfoliated front flyleaf.

An owner's note by, apparently, Joseph Almanzi: front flyleaf (iv)v.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 188: 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

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27082 (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. 823.

Bibliography

    [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.
    [Avivi_1984] Avivi, Joseph. “The writing of Rabbi Isaac Luria in Italy before 1620 / כתבי האר"י באיטליה עד שנת ש"פ.” 'Alei Sefer: Studies in Bibliography and in the History of the Printed and the Digital Hebrew Book / עלי ספר: מחקרים בביבליוגרפיה ובתולדות הספר העברי המודפס והדיגיטלי'11 (1984): 91–134.
    [Kiryat_Sefer] 'KIRYAT SEFER.', n.d.
    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

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