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Or 1102

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032-003376484
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Or 1102
Title:
Shaʿar ha-shamayim
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
102 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1102 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1300-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Caleb Afendopolo
Ibn Latif, Isaac ben Abraham, 1219-1291
Ibn Latif, Isaac ben Abraham, 1219-1291
Nissim ibn Shinkeh
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Or 1102

Shaʿar ha-shamayim

Contents

Shaʿar ha-shamayim of Isaac ben Abraham ibn Latif, consisting of 4 parts.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-102v
Title: Shaʿar ha-shamayim
Title: שער השמים
Author: Latif, Isaac ben Abraham ibn, approximately 1220-approximately 1290 אבן לטיף, יצחק בן אברהם
f. 1r
Title: A note

A note in Sefardi semi-cursive writing on the meaning of rivers in the Garden of Eden.

f. 2r
Title: Preface
ff. 2r-6v
Title: Table of contents
ff. 7r-15r
Title: Introduction
ff. 15r-56v
Title: Gate one
ff. 56v-78r
Title: Gate two
ff. 78r-90r
Title: Gate three
ff. 90r-101r
Title: Gate four
ff. 101v-102v
Title: A note

Concerns different intepretations of certain hagadic passages.

f. 102v
Title: A note

Partly retouched note on the appelation of Jesus in the Gospels and the Epistles.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 14th to 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 102 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 254 × 172 mm.
Foliation:

102 folios (+ 1 paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

Originally quires of 10 leaves each.

Condition

All leaves slightly damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 27

Written lines: 27

Uniform layout.

Numbering of the chapters in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive script of 14th to 15th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house, dark blue.

Spine title: 'Isaac ibn Latif. Sha'ar Hash-Shamayim. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental Ms. 1102.'

History

Origin: 1300-1499 14th-15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Caleb Afendopolo: inscribed with his name with a date of (5)260 (1495), folio 101r.

Nissim ibn Shinkeh (?): inscribed in a note, folio 2r.

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_1102 (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. 915.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL