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Or 1055

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Or 1055
Title:
Collection of kabbalistic texts
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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178 folios
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1300
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1399
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Names:
Abraham ben Alexander, of Cologne, fl 13th century
Abraham ben Alexander, of Cologne, fl 13th century
Abraham of Cologne
Asher ben David, 1200-1299
Asher ben David, 1200-1299
Gerondi, Perez ben Isaac, Cohen, fl 13th century
Gerondi, Perez ben Isaac, Cohen, fl 13th century
Menahem, a student of Eleazar of Worms
Mosheh
Yehonatan [ben Avi῾ezer] ha-Kohen [of Ferara]
Yitsḥaḳ ha-Sofer
מנחם (תלמידו של אלעזר מגרמיזא)
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Or 1055

Collection of kabbalistic texts

Contents

Kabbalistic texts.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-90v
Title: Perush ha-Torah le-Ramban
Title: פרוש התורה לרמב"ן
Author: Naḥmanides, approximately 1195-approximately 1270 משה בן נחמן

Imperfect at the beginning.

ff. 90v-99v

See [Masuot_1994] 103 n. 16.

Title: Sodot ha-niḳud
Title: סודות הנקוד
Incipit: דבר ידוע כי הנקודה היא הנשמה. f. 90v
ff. 99v-102v
Title: Sod neḳudat ha-shem ha-meyuḥad
Title: סוד נקודת השם המיוחד
Incipit: ה' יודע לך כי סוד השם. f. 99v

At the end (folio 102v) a short scheme on the plan of Magen David, with the divine and agelic names.

ff. 103r-106r
Title: ῾Esrim u-shetayim otiyot shel Meṭaṭron
Title: עשרים ושתים אותיות של מטטרון

See [Idel_2006] ; [Idel_1998] 44, 237; [Weinstock_1981] .

ff. 106r-107v
Title: Tefilat ha-yiḥud le-R. Neḥuniah ben ha-Ḳanah
Title: תפלת היחוד לר' נחוניה בן הקנה
Filiation: Cf. part XI below and [BL] Add MS 27009/I (end), 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. 751..
ff. 107v-108r
Title: Perush ῾eser sefirot
Title: פרוש עשר ספירות
Incipit: קודם שברא הקב"ה את עולמו היה הוא ושמו. f. 107v

See Scholem, 'Mafteaḥ Le-Perushim' 1933, p. 511 no. 121.

Filiation: Cf. [BL] Add MS 15299/VII (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 752).
ff. 108r-109v
Title: Sefer ha-yiḥud (Perush shalosh ῾esreh midot)
Title: ספר היחוד (פרוש שלש עשרה מדות)
Author: Asher ben David ben Abraham אשר בן דוד בן אברהם

See further [Abrams_1996] 35-45.

Filiation: Cf. [BL] Add MS 15299/XII (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 752).
ff. 110r-112v
Title: Divre Menaḥem : Perush ῾eser sefirot
Title: דברי מנחם : פרוש עשר ספירות
Author: Menaḥem, a student of Eleazar of Worms מנחם, תלמידו של אלעזר מגרמיזא
Filiation: Cf. [BL] Add MS 27142/V; Add MS 15299/XI; Add MS 27187/XV (Margoliouth, Catalogue, no. 746, 752, 753).

See Scholem, 'Mafteaḥ Le-Perushim' 1933, p. 504 no. 50.

At the end, a short fragment of Keter shem ṭov of Abraham of Cologne is given, followed by various other portions (folio 111v onwards), cf. Add MS 15299/XII. See [Scholem_1930] 72 no. 6.

ff. 112v-121v
Title: Sodot u-te῾amim be-ḳabalah
Title: סודות וטעמים בקבלה

Parts of it were printed at the end of [Nefesh-Hakhamah_1608] .

From folio 118v-121v the manuscript agress with Add MS 15299, folios 73-75r.

ff. 121v-126v
Title: Keter shem ṭov
Title: כתר שם טוב
Author: Abraham ben Alexander, of Cologne, active 13th century אברהם בן אלכסנדר מקולוניא
Filiation: Cf. [BL] Add MS 15299/XXIII.
ff. 126v-127v
Title: Tefilat ha-yiḥud le-R. Neḥuniah ben ha-Ḳanah
Title: תפלת היחוד לר' נחוניה בן הקנה

Same as no. 5 below.

ff. 127v-128r
Title: Perush ῾eser sefirot
Title: פרוש עשר ספירות
Incipit: הראשונה כתר עליון שניה חכמה ... קודם שברא הקב"ה את עולמו היה הוא ושמו בלבד. f. 127v

See Scholem, 'Mafteaḥ Le-Perushim' 1933, p. 511 no. 121.

ff. 128r-132r
Title: Sefer ha-yiḥud
Title: ספר היחוד
Author: Asher ben David ben Abraham אשר בן דוד בן אברהם
Incipit: [ערכתי] את לבי לתור. f. 132r
ff. 132r-140r
Title: Perush sha῾ar ha-sho᾿el
Title: פרוש שער השואל

Sha῾ar ha-sho᾿el of Azriel of Gerona begins on folio 136v.

Filiation: Cf. Firenze - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana Plut. 44.14, pp. 31v-34r, [Laurentiana_1757] ; [BL] Add MS 27076 and [BL] Add MS 27173.
ff. 141v-178v
Title: Sefer ha-ḥayim
Title: ספר החיים

The manuscript contains only the second part of the work, probably penned by a student of Eleazar of Worms. See [Dan_1968] 143-156, 230-240.

Filiation: Cf. the contents of MS Gaster 375, The John Rylands Library.
Colophon: נשלם ביום א' ג' ימים לירח [...] בעיר רומי על יד יהונתן הכהן אשר [...] ועתה דר בארץ נד . והמתים ברחמיו יקבץ יהודה ישראל (?) ויקיים זו בשנה זו כי יום נקם בלבי ושנת גאוליי באה . אמן . f. 178v

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 178 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

178 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 1 at the end). Folio 1 is a paper flyleaf.

Irregular original folation.

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each, marked by catchwords at the end and signed at the beginning.

The first quire is missing entirely, and leaves are also missing throughout.

Condition

Incomplete.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 28 31

Written lines: 28 31

Uniform layout.

Visible pricking and hard-point ruling.

Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable.

Some additions and notes in the margin.

Catchwords occasionally enclosed in a simple pen and ink design, e.g., folio 150v, 160v.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script of the 14th century. Yitsḥaḳ ha-Sofer: inscribed, folio 106r. Yehonatan [ben Avi῾ezer] ha-Kohen [of Ferara]: inscribed in the colophon, folio 178v.

ff. 1r-109v
and
ff. 110r-178v
due to two different but contemporary hands.

Additions:

Front inner cover: a stamp of the India Office Library, OIC 232 Microfilm.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Kabbalistic treatises and tracts by Moses ben Nahman, Eleazar of Worms and others. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1055.'

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century Italy (Rome)

Provenance and Acquisition

Mosheh: marked off on folio 4r, 8v, 9v: perhaps a name of a former owner.

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=Or_1055 (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. 756.

Bibliography

    [Masuot_1994] אורון, מיכל, עמוס גולדריך, איתמר גרינולד, יוסף הקר, אליוט וולפסון, יורם יעקבסון, מיכאל מך, מנחם קלין, אברהם שפירא, and רבקה שץ-אופנהימר. 'משואות : מחקרים בספרות הקבלה ובמחשבת ישראל, מוקדשים לזכרו של אפרים גוטליב / עורכים - מיכל אורון, עמוס גולדרייך.'ירושלים: מוסד ביאליק, 1994.
    [Idel_1998] אידל, משה. 'ר’ מנחם רקנאטי המקובל / משה אידל. [קבלה ]'. כרך א. ירושלים: שוקן, 1998.
    [Weinstock_1981] וינשטוק, ישראל. “אלפא ביתא של מטטרון ופירושה,” 1981.
    [BL] BL = British Library shelfmark
    Gershom Scholem. 'Mafteaḥ Le-Perushim ʿal ʿEser Sefirot'. Kiryat Sefer 10 (1933): 498-515.
    [Abrams_1996] דוד, 13th cent אשר בן, דניאל אברמס, Daniel Abrams, and active 13th century Asher ben David. 'R. Asher Ben Daṿid : Kol Ketavaṿ Ṿe-ʿiyunim Be-Ḳabalato : Ṿe-Nosaf Lo Perushe Maʿaśeh Be-Reshit Shel Ha-Meḳubalim Bi-Provans Uve-Geronah / Me-et Daniyel Abrams.'לוס אנג׳לס: הוצאת כרוב, Los Ang’eles, 1996.
    [Scholem_1930] Gershom Gerhard Scholem. 'Kitve-Yad Be-Ḳabalah Ha-Nimtsaʾim Be-Vet Ha-Sefarim Ha- Leʾumi Ṿeha-Universiṭaʾi Bi-Yerushala[y]Im / Teʾaram Ṿe-Ḥaḳaram Gershom Shalom ; Be-Hishtatfut Yiʹsʹsakhar Yoʾel.'Yerushalayim: Ḥevrah le-hotsaʾat sefarim ʿal-yad ha- Universiṭah ha-ʿIvrit, 1930.
    [Nefesh-Hakhamah_1608] Tov, de Leon Moses ben Shem. 'Ṿe-Zot Ha-Sefer Ha-Nefesh Ha-Ḥakhamah : ... Be-Veʾur Sodot ... / Ha-Rav Mosheh Bar Shem Ṭov Me-ʿir Leʾon.'בזילאה, שסח, Basle, 1608.
    [Laurentiana_1757] Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (FLORENCE). 'Bibliothecae Ebraicae Graecae Florentinae, Sive Bibliothecae Mediceo-Laurentianae Catalogus Ab Antonio Maria Biscionio ... Digestus Atque Editus, Etc. (Codices Hebraici MS. Qui in Bibliotheca Palatina Adservantur. Ex Recesione ... Stephani Evodii Assemani.) [Edited by A. P. Giulianelli.]'. Florentiae, 1757.
    [Dan_1968] Dan, Joseph. 'Torat Ha-Sod Shel Hasidut Ashkenaz'. Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 1968.

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