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Or 4596

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032-003375163
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Or 4596
Title:
A collection of Abraham Abulafia's cabbalistic works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
120 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4596 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, 1240-1292
Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, 1240-1292
Nathan Coronel
Quaritch, Bernard Alexander Christian, bookseller and publisher, 1819-1899
Shemaryah Tsevi Avraham Yeḥiel
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 4596

A collection of Abraham Abulafia's cabbalistic works

Contents

A collection of Abraham Abulafia's works.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-69r
Title: Sitre Torah
Title: סתרי תורה
Author: Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, 1240-approximately 1292 אבולעפיה, אברהם בן שמואל
Incipit: פירוש סודות מורה הנבוכים ושמו ספר סתרי תורה. f. 2r

References

[Idel_1976] 11-12, p. 42 n. 43.
ff. 69v-120v
Title: Ḥaye ha-῾olam ha-ba
Title: חיי העולם הבא
Author: Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, 1240-approximately 1292 אבולעפיה, אברהם בן שמואל
Incipit: פירוש שם המפורש ושמו חיי העולם הבא וסוד מספר אותיות ירושלם. f. 69v

Folio 117r: a poem exhibiting the acrostic with the title of the work.

At the end, folios 117v-118v: Sod ha-merkavah, ῾Esrim u-shetayim otiyot shel Metatron, and two segulot.

See further [Idel_1976] 62-64 (volume 1).

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 120 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 147 × 100 mm.
Dimensions (written): 110 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 16 leaves each, marked with catchwords at the end.

Condition

Slightly worm-eaten towards the gutter.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 29 30

Written lines: 29 30

Uniform layout.

Catchwords on every verso.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Some additions and comments in the margin.

Too closely cut in the binding.

Diagrams, folios 74r-98r, 117v,

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Boxed.

Spine: 'Commentary to Moreh Nebokhim & Shem-Ham_Meforash. Abul-Afia. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Or. 4596.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Shemaryah Tsevi Avraham Yeḥiel: inscribed in an owner's entry, folio 1r.

Nathan Coronel (inscribed as N. S. Coronel): folio 119v.

Two additional, partly illegible inscriptions of former owners, folio 1r.

Purchased by the British Museum through Bernard Quaritch on 16 January 1893: 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=Or_4596 (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. 757.

Bibliography

    [Idel_1976] אידל, משה. 'כתבי ר’ אברהם אבולעפיה ומשנתו / ... מאת משה אידל.'חמו"ל, 1976.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL