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Title:
Kabbalistic works of Samuel Portaleone
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
159 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1623
End Date:
1623
Date Range:
1623
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
Portaleone, Samuel ben Elisha, 1600-1699
Portaleone, Samuel ben Elisha, 1600-1699
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Kabbalistic works of Samuel Portaleone

Contents

Two kabbalistic works of Samuel Portaleone.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-143r
Title: Perush Tiḳune Zohar
Title: פרוש תקוני הזהר
Author: שער אריה, שמואל בן אלישע Portaleone, Samuel ben Elisha

The manuscript begins with the commentaries on Tiḳunim 56 to 70 (folios 1r-119r) and continues with the commentaries on Tiḳunim 1 to 11 (folios 120r-143r).

Colophon: יהי שם ה' מבורך שזיכנו להשלים מה שיעדנו לעשות היום יו' ז' ניסן ש'פ'ג' שהוא ז' אפרילו ס' מרטינו אשר תחת ממשלת המרקיסו קרלו דאיסטי יר"ח. f. 143r
ff. 143r-159v
Title: Taḳanat ha-shavim
Title: תקנת השבים
Author: שער אריה, שמואל בן אלישע Portaleone, Samuel ben Elisha

Incomplete at the end.

Folio 143v contains a piece commenting upon the 13 midot.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 159 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 180/200 × 95/145 mm.
Foliation:

159 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).

Original Hebrew foliation.

Collation

Quires of mostly 16 leaves each.

Condition

Defective at the end.

Water-damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 33 42

Written lines: 33 42

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

Running headings.

Additions and comments in the margin.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script of the 17th century. Apparently an autograph of Samuel ben Elisha Portaleone.

Additions:

Front and back flyleaves come from a printed edition of Seder ha-hafṭarot.

Binding

Modern binding, hard-board cover with ivory leather spine.

Spine: 'Perush Tikkune Haz-Zohar, Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,090.'

History

Origin: 1623 Italy, N. (San Martino)

Provenance and Acquisition

Fol. 143v contains notes of the former owners, including an entry of birth dated 1684, and some astrological calculations.

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 196: 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, folio 160av.

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_27090 (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. 837.

Bibliography

    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

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