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Or 4115
- Record Id:
- 032-003376312
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100044107652.0x000026
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- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 4115
- Title:
- Leḥem Shelomoh
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-003376312
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 168 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4115 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic - Scripts:
- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1650
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 1650-1699
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Or 4115
Leḥem Shelomoh
Contents
Kabbalistic writings of Shelomoh ben David ha-Kohen.
Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic
ff. 1r-168vTitle: Leḥem ShelomohTitle: לחם שלמהThe text is based on several kabbalistic works, e.g., Tolaʿat Yaʿaḳov, Maʿarekhet ha-elohut, Shaʿare orah, Derekh emunah and Sefer kaṿanot.
Folios 1 and 2 contain a piece, incomplete at the end, etitled Seder kol ha-nimtsa᾿im (on the order of worlds).
Appended are: Sha῾are yedi῾at ha-midot ṿeha-mishḳalot (Arabic in Hebrew characters, imperfect at the end), folios 167r-167v; an incomplete list of passages from Tana"kh and Mishnah, folio 168r.
See further [Kiryat_Sefer] 28 (1953), pp. 396-397 no. 177.
Physical Description
Paper codex of the 2nd half of the 17th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport:Extent: 168 foliosDimensions (leaf): 152 × 95 mm.Dimensions (written): 125 × 80 mm.Foliation:168 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 4 at the end).
Original Hebrew foliation is only partly preserved.
Collation
Quires of 8 leaves each.
Condition
Leaves missing after folios 2, 9, 121, 167.
Well-fingered, with dirt and grease in margins, especially lower corner – a few of the latter have been infilled.
A few tidemarks at head.
Paper slightly soft and weak from use.
Folio 168 has small loss at foredge.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 16 22
Written lines: 16 22
Uniform layout.
Titles and initial words in larger square characters.
Catchwords on every verso.
Visible ruling.
Running titles.
Hand(s)
Yemenite semi-cursive script of the second half of the 17th century. Shemarya ben Yosef ben Shalom: inscribed, folio 166v (acrostic in the upper part of the page).
Additions:Binding
BM in-house.
Spine: 'Solomon Cohen. Lekhem Shelomoh. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Or. 4115.'
History
Origin: 1650-1699 2nd half of the 17th century YemenProvenance and Acquisition
A record of deposition of the manuscript, which was transferred from Yehudah ῾Amar (?) to Yaakov ibn Daud Yosef, dated 2026 SE (1715 CE), witnessed by Shemarya ben Yosef and Mosheh ibn Se῾adyah: inscribed in Arabic (in Hebrew characters), folio 20v.
An entry with a list of purchased books, dated 1866 CE: folio 168v, in Arabic (in Hebrew characters).
1890-05-10
B. Steinhart: purchased from him by the British Museum on 10 May 1890: 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.Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4115 (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. 852.Bibliography
[Kiryat_Sefer] 'KIRYAT SEFER.', n.d.Funding of Cataloguing
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