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Title:
Zohar (Idra raba ṿe-Idra zuṭa)
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
120 folios
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Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
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Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1600-1799
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
D. Bolleli
Daṿid Leṿi Bar᾿am Ibn Mordekhai Leṿi Bar᾿am
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Or 6412

Zohar (Idra raba ṿe-Idra zuṭa)

Contents

Idra raba and Idra zuṭa of Sefer ha-zohar.

Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic

ff. 1r-183v
Title: Zohar (Idra raba ṿe-Idra zuṭa)
Title: זהר (אדרא רבא ואדרא זוטא)

Idra raba begins on folio 8r, and Idra zuṭa on folio 81r.

There are a number of variant readings within the lines of the text, and occasional marginal notes.

Folio 1-7 and 118-120 contain various Arabic notes (partly incomplete and partly repetitions of each other), mostly relating ot the transmission of gold by one person to another). Among the names appearing in those notes are: Yosef Balkhir, Yosef Gozlan, David Levi Baram, Yeshayah Levi Balnasi.

References

[Zohar_1957]

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th to 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 120 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 175 × 125 mm.
Foliation:

120 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Margins too closely cut.

Folio 1 is only partly preserved.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 12 18

Written lines: 12 19

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Sefardi (North-African) semi-cursive script of the 17th to 18th century.

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600/ Brown leather.

Spine: 'Zohar. Idra Rabba & Idra Zuta. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 6412.'

History

Origin: 1600-1799 17th-18th century Africa, N. (Algeria?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Daṿid Leṿi Bar᾿am Ibn Mordekhai Leṿi Bar᾿am: inscribed, folios 8r, 79v, 80v and 117r.

Folio 3r-7r: a letter, dated Algiers, 25 Nisan [5]570 AM (1810 CE), sent by Daṿid Leṿi Bar᾿am to his brother, Ḥayim; Oriental cursive script.

D. Bolleli: purchased from him by the British Museum on 17 June 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.

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Surrogates

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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. 764.

Bibliography

    [Zohar_1957] ברנדוויין, יהודה צבי, יהודה אשלג, Yehuda Ẓevi Brandwein, and Yehudah Ashlag. 'Sefer Ha-Zohar ʻal Ḥamishah Ḥumshe Torah / Meha-Tana Shimʻon Bar Yoḥai ; ʻim Perush Derekh Emet Ṿe-ʻim Beʾur Maʻalot Ha-Sulam ... Gam ʻim Mesoret Ha-Zohar ... Ḥilufe Girsaʾot ... Be-Ḥeleḳ Zeh Mevuʾarim Ha-Hashmaṭot Le-Ḥeleḳ Be-Reshit Ṿeha-Hosafot Li-Shemot, Ṿa-Yiḳra Be-Midbar, Devarim ; Mafteaḥ Milim Ṿe-Gam Mafteaḥ ... Ha-Maʻaśyot Shebe-Khol Ḥelḳe Ha-Zohar Ṿe-Tiḳunim Ṿe-Zohar Ḥadash Ṿe-Tiḳunim Ḥadashim Meturgam Bi-Leshon Ha-Ḳodesh / Yehudah Tsevi Brandṿain.'תל-אביב: יברנדוויין בדפוס עתיד, תשי״ח 1957 או 1958, Tel-Aviv, 1957.

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