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Or 10339

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032-003376269
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Or 10339
Title:
Collection of kabbalistic tracts
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
188 folios (ix+188+ix)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Cordovero, Moses ben Jacob, 1522-1570
Cordovero, Moses ben Jacob, 1522-1570
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 10339

Collection of kabbalistic tracts

Contents

A collection of kabbalistic tracts.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-188v
Author:
Title: ליקוטים בקבלה
Title: Liḳutim ba-kabalah

Title in manuscript: תחלת זוהר חדש.

Among the included: ff. 1r-14r: Perush Zohar (an interpretation of the Zohar); ff. 14r-15v: Kaṿanot ha-ḳadish (mystical intentions of the prayer); ff. 15v-19v: Derush ha-lev; ff. 20r-21v; Perush ha-Zohar by ha Remaḳ (Moses ben Jacob Cordovero); ff. 21v-22r: Liḳutim ṿe-Leḥem ha-panim; homiletic commentaries, yiḥudim, compilations of commentaries on Sefer Yetsirah, compilations of the book Sodai Razai, Sefer Yetsirah (ff. 163r-164v), etc.

Incomplete at the beginning.

At the end are indices of yihudim, mystical intentions, verses and homiletic commentaries.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; tre-lune watermark (e.g. f. 11).
Extent: 188 folios (ix+188+ix)
Dimensions (leaf): 152 × 95 mm.
Dimensions (written): 130 × 75/80 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation; fol. 1 = fol. ט, that shows that at least 8 leaves are missing from the beginning.

Collation

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

23 quires: i-xix8, xx10, xxi-xxii8, xxiii10.

Usage stains, water damage, worm damage, ink stains.

Mould (esp. ff. 177-183).

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 35

Written lines: 35

Uniform layout.

Graphic markers (three dots) at the end of some of the lines or to divide sections (e.g. ff. 10r, 37r, 165r).

Marginal notes; sometimes running rectangular with the text (e.g. ff. 14r, 22v, 54r, 104v, 112r).

Some corrections in the text (by the scribe?); some words, sentences are marked with dots above the letters (e.g. ff. 16r, 119v).

Running titles.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew semi-cursive script of the 18th century.

Decoration

Chart on f. 138r.

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600 black cloth binding.

Spine: 'קבלה ליקוטים Cod. Heb. Gaster 124 M.G.

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 124; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 20 September 1927.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).

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