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Or 6307

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Or 6307
Title:
Kabbalistic collectaneum
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Extent:
136 folios
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Languages:
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Start Date:
1902
End Date:
1902
Date Range:
1902
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Grossberg, Menasseh, rabbinical scholar, c 1860-1927
Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118044667,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90633023
Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118044667,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90633023
ibn Tamim, Dunash, 0900-0999
ibn Tamim, Dunash, 0900-0999
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Or 6307

Kabbalistic collectaneum

Contents

Collection of kabbalistic texts.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-107v
Language(s): Hebrew
Title: Perush Sefer yetsirah
Title: פירוש ספר יצירה

This manuscript was copied from Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Reggio 51 [Neubauer_1994] 2250in 1902 by Menasseh Grossberg.

The text of the original manuscript was itself copied from Ms. Cambridge-Harvard 38, 34447, by Yehoshuah Heshel Shor, dated 5217 (1457).

Author: Dunash ibn Tamim, active 10th century דונש בן תמים

References

[Vajda_2002]
[Mancuso_2010]
[Segol_2012]
ff. 108r-123r
Title: Sefer yetsirah
Title: ספר יצירה
Filiation: Copied from Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Reggio 51 [Neubauer_1891] 2250.
ff. 123r-136v
Title: ספר המשאלה בקדרות הלבנה והשמש
Title: Sefer ha-mishʼalah be-ḳaderut ha-levanah ṿeha-shemesh
Author: Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164 אבן עזרא, אברהם בן מאיר
Filiation: Copied from Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Michael 39 [Neubauer_1891] 2023 by Menaseh Grossberg in 1902.

References

[Yetsirah_1901]

Physical Description

Paper codex of the early 20th century.
Form: codex
Material: mixed
Support:
Extent: 136 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 160 × 100 mm.
Dimensions (written): 130 × 70 mm.
Foliation:

136 folios (+ 1 unfoliated flyleaf at the beginning and at the end of the manuscript).

Collation

Quires of 7 leaves each.

Text written on recto side of leaves only.

Layout

Columns:1 3

Ruled lines: 18

Written lines: 18

Hand(s)

Modern Hebrew cursive script.

ff. 1r-2r
Italian/Byzantine semi-cursive of approximately 15th century
ff. 2v-7r
Spanish semi-cursive of approximately 15th century
ff. 8r-61v
Italian/Byzantine semi-cursive of approximately 15th century

Binding

BM in-house, blue blind-tooled binding.

Spine: 'Sefer Yesirah. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 6307.'

History

Origin: 1902 England (Oxford)

Provenance and Acquisition

Menasseh Grossberg: brought from him by the British Museum on 11 February 1902: 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_6307 (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. 734.

Bibliography

    [Oxford_BOD] 'Oxford, Bodleian Library', n.d.
    [Neubauer_1994] NeubauerAd. comp. 'Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and in the College Libraries of Oxford'. Oxford Clarendon Pr1994reprint of 1886 edition, 1994.
    [Vajda_2002] Dūnaš ben Tāmīm, Paul B. Fenton, and Georges Vajda. 'Le Commentaire Sur Le Livre de Création de La Dūnas̆ Ben Tāmīm de Kairouan: (Xe Siècle)'. Paris [u.a.:]: Peeters, 2002.
    [Mancuso_2010] Piergabriele Mancuso. 'Shabbatai Donnolo’s Sefer Ḥakhmoni : Introduction, Critical Text, and Annotated English Translation / by Piergabriele Mancuso.'Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2010.
    [Segol_2012] Marla Segol. 'Word and Image in Medieval Kabbalah : The Texts, Commentaries, and Diagrams of the Sefer Yetsirah / Marla Segol.'Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
    [Neubauer_1891] Neubauer, Adolf. 'Petite Grammaire Hébraïque Provenant de Yemen, Texte Arabe Publíe d’après Les Manuscrits Connus'. Leipzig: O. Harrassowitz, 1891.
    [Yetsirah_1901] Dunash ibn Tamim, Isaac Israeli, Abraham ben Meïr Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Samuel Ibn Ḥasdai, and Menasseh Grossberg. 'Sefer Yetsirah: Ha-Meyuḥas Le-Avraham Avinu ʻa. Ha. ʻim Perush ... Abusahal Dunash Ben Tamim Hu R. Yitsḥaḳ Ha-Yiśreʼeli ... Ṿe-Nilṿeh Elaṿ Sefer Le-Mishʼalah Be-Ḳadrut Ha-Levanah Ṿeha-Shemesh ... Me-Rabenu R. Avraham Ben ʻEzra Zal Ṿe-Sefer Mishpaṭ Shivʻah Ha-Iḳlimim Mi-Rabenu Avraham Ha-Leṿi Bar Ḥasdai'. London: bi-defus E. Z. Rabinoṿiṭsh, 1901.

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