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Or 4536

Record Id:
032-003375162
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003375162
MDARK:
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Or 4536
Title:
Collection of kabbalistic works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
117 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4536 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1701
End Date:
1701
Date Range:
1701
Calendar:
Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
M. Herz
Nathan, 1643-1680
Nathan, 1643-1680
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 4536

Collection of kabbalistic works

Contents

Sabbathean writings.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-117v
Title: Kovets
Title: קובץ
Author: Nathan, of Gaza, 1643-1680 נתן בנימין, מעזה
Colophon: תושלבע בשנת א'י'ת'ן' מושביך ושים בסלע קנך יום ג' ב"ך לחדש סיון. f. 17v
ff. 1r-12v
Title: Derush ha-taninim
Title: דרוש התנינים

See [Scholem_Gaza_1944]

ff. 13r-76v
Title: Zamir ῾aritsim ya῾aneh
Title: זמיר עריצים יענה
ff. 77r-117r
Title: Ḥibur
Title: חבור (חלק)

A treatise without a title, but apparently by the same author, on the development of the worlds from En Sof.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 117 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 216 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 175 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

117 folios (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 5 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Stained.

Paper darkening at edges and foxing.

Ink flaking, and text area often brown all over.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 31

Written lines: 31

Uniform layout.

Initial words in larger square characters.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Catchwords on every page.

Gilt edges.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 18th century.

Binding

Post-1600 (contemporary with the manuscript). Dark red leather with gold tooling. Boxed.

Spine: 'Derush Hat-Tanninim. Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Or. 4536.'

History

Origin: 1701 Greece?

Provenance and Acquisition

M. Herz: purchased from him by the British Museum on 11 January 1892: 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.

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4536 (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. 856.

Bibliography

    [Scholem_Gaza_1944] בנימין, מעזה נתן. 'בעקבות משיח : אוסף מקורות מראשית התפתחות האמונה השבתאית / מלוקטים מתוך כתביו של ר’ אברהם בנימין נתן בן אלישע חיים אשכנזי המכונה נתן העזתי ; יוצאים לאור מתוך כתבי היד על ידי גרשם שלום.'ירושלים: ספרי תרשיש, 1944.

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