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Or 1263

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032-003374478
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Or 1263
Title:
Collection of halakhic works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
362 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1263 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1433
End Date:
1433
Date Range:
1433
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CE
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Names:
Aaron ben Elijah, 1328-1369
Aaron ben Elijah, 1328-1369
Aaron ben Yehudah Ḳusdini
Elijah ha-Melamed
Eliyahu ben Yitsḥaḳ Yafet
Fischl Hirsch
Israel ben ha-Ma'aravi
Shelomoh
Solomon ha-Nasi
Yitsḥaḳ ben Eliyah ben Avraham ben Simḥah ben Eliyah ha-Zaḳen
אליהו המלמד
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Or 1263

Collection of halakhic works

Contents

A collection of works including Sefer yetsirah, with a commentary, and Karaite legal treatises.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-3v
Title: Sefer yetsirah

f. 1r a diagram of a solar system and of the sings of the Zodiac (partly cut away).

ff. 3v-6v
Title: Perush Sefer yetsirah

An explanatory expansion of chapter 1 of Sefer yetsirah, in 7 sections.

ff. 6v-8v
Title: [Amar he-ḥakham ha-amiti]

A fragment of a philosophical treatise on the eternity of the world.

ff. 8v-307v
Title: Gan ῾eden
Author: Aaron ben Elijah אהרן בן אליהו, מניקומדיה

Contains a subscription of the original manuscript's copyist, Elijah ben Aaron (f. 149r), two poems (f. 151r), as well as a piece written in the form of circular diagram (folio 150v). There is also a lenghty subscription and a colophon of Elijah ben Aaron (f. 306v), followed by the colophon of the scribe to whom the present copy is due (f. 307r). The genealogy of Shelomoh ha-Nasi is given on f. 315r.

Colophon: וכתב העבד הצעיר והנבזה והדל והנקלה עפר רגלי כל ישראל משה בן אברהם נב"ת ממדינת פארס הנודע בשם כוי קרוב לתבריז שהמלך שוכן בה כשזכני השם שכתבתי זה הספר המיוקר וכתר התורה פיר' התו' חבור הר' הח' רב' אהרן זצ"ל -[כן זיכני להגות בו]- כן יזכני למען שמו ולמ' תורתו לראות ביאת אליהו המלך המשיח בבנין ציון ושכלול ירושלם במ' ובז' קר' ונגיל ונשמח ונשבח לשם ית' ונאמר קומו ונעלה אל ה' ונאמ' ונפשי תגיל בת"ב. למענך אלהי אבותי תזכני לראות בעיני יחד עם כלל עמ' ב' יש' זכרני ה' ברצון עמך וג' לראות בטו' ב"א אנס"ל: לישועת ק' י. f. 307r
Colophon: משה חזק אנס"ל. f. 148v

f. 19v, 150v Two diagrams.

ff. 307v-315r
Title: Igeret

A letter on a question relating to forbidden degrees (referimg to prohibited marriages between certain members of the same family), addressed by Solomon ha-Nasi to Aaron ben Yehudah Ḳusdini.

ff. 315r-317v
Title: Igeret

A letter (fragmentary) addressed by Israel ben ha-Ma'aravi to certain persons who questioned him concerning the case of re-married woman, who had kept the marriage ring given to her by her former husband. Breaks off before a decision is given.

ff. 317v-327r
Title: Perush Divre ha-yamim

A brief commentary on 1 and 2Chronicles.

Author: Elijah ha-Melamed אליהו המלמד
ff. 327r-361v
Title: Perush Tehilim

A brief commentary on the Book of Psalms.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 362 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 250 × 205 mm.
Dimensions (written): 200 × 145 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of originally 10 leaves each. Ff. 207-233 are numbered with Hebrew letters.

Condition

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 27

Written lines: 27

Uniform layout.

Visible mastara ruling.

Catchwords on every verso.

Running titles.

Chapter numbers given in large square characters.

Many marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine title: 'Sepher Yetsirah. Aaron Ha-Rishon on the Prophets & Psalms. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1263.'

History

Origin: 1433 Perhaps 1436 is more correct. Egypt?

Provenance and Acquisition

Eliyahu ben Yitsḥaḳ Yafet: inscribed, f. 2r.

F. 361v: a record of purchase of the manuscript, dated 1618, by Yitsḥaḳ ben Eliyah ben Avraham ben Simḥah ben Eliyah ha-Zaḳen, witnessed by , Yitsḥaḳ ben Mordekhai and Mordekhai ben Yeshu῾ah. Same folio, underneath: a note of sale of the manuscript, dated 5514 (1753), to Shelomoh.

F. 361v, side margin: a note signed by Mosheh ben Eliya ha-Levi.

Fischl Hirsch: purchased by the British Museum from him on 13 December 1873: inscribed (f. 362v).

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_1263 (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. 600.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL