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Title:
Pardes ha-ḥokhmah
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
361 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Abraham Saba
Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, kabbalist and scholar, 1248-1325
Joseph Schlesinger
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Or 3655

Pardes ha-ḥokhmah

Contents

Kabbalistic commentary on the Pentateuch.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-361v
Title: Pardes ha-ḥokhmah: perush ha-Torah be-῾iḳar ῾al derekh ha-ḳabalah
Title: פרדס החכמה : פרוש התורה בעיקר על דרך הקבלה
Filiation: Cf. [Neubauer_1994] 1919.

The commentary is largely made up of quotations from the Zohar (mostly in Hebrew), the Talmud, midrashim, Joseph Gikatilla's Sha῾are orah, Abraham Saba's Tseror ḥamor, etc.

The commentary on Exodus begins on folio 150r; on Leviticus, folio 216r; on Numbers, folio 258v; on Deuteronomy, folio 333r.

See also [Idel_Zohar_1981] 91-96 (1981).

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 361 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 165 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

361 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Collation

Indeterminable (too tightly bound).

Condition

Fading ink.

Imperfect.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22 37

Written lines: 22 37

Non-uniform layout.

Initial words in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive scripts of the 16th century.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Pardes Ha-Hokhmah. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental MS. 3655.'

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th century

Provenance and Acquisition

1889-03-02

Joseph Schlesinger: purchased from him by the British Museum on 02 March 1889: 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_3655 (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. 769.

Bibliography

    [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.
    [Idel_Zohar_1981] Idel, Mosheh. “The ‘Zohar’ translation by R David b Yehuda he-Hasid / תרגומו של ר’ דוד בן יהודה החסיד לס’ הזהר ופירושיו לא"ב (המשך).” 'Alei Sefer: Studies in Bibliography and in the History of the Printed and the Digital Hebrew Book / עלי ספר: מחקרים בביבליוגרפיה ובתולדות הספר העברי המודפס והדיגיטלי'9 (1981): 84–98.

Funding of Cataloguing

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