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Or 10324

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Or 10324
Title:
Collection of kabbalistic texts
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
113 folios (113+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Names:
Abraham ben David, of Posquieres, c 1125-1198
Abraham ben David, of Posquieres, c 1125-1198
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
ha-Kohen, Jacob ben Jacob, 1200-1270,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/97324044,
ha-Kohen, Jacob ben Jacob, 1200-1270,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/97324044,
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Or 10324

Collection of kabbalistic texts

Contents

A collection of kabbalistic texts.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 3r-19r
Author: Jacob ben Jacob, ha-Kohen, -approximately 1270 יעקב בן יעקב הכהן
Title: פרוש האותיות
Title: Perush ha-ʾotiyot
Incipit: "פירוש צורת האותיות על דרך הקבלה"

Title in MS: "פירוש צורת האותיות על דרך הקבלה".

References

See the edition by Gershom Scholem in Madaʿe ha-Yahadut II (Jerusalem, 1927), pp. 201 ff.)
ff. 19v-28v
Author:
Title: שמות הספירות
Title: Shemot ha-Sefirot

Cf. ג’ שלום, קרית ספר י, עמ’ 499-505, מס’ 62, 59, 7.

ff. 29r-32v
Author:
Title: ספר יצירה
Title: Sefer Yetsirah

ff. 33r-113v
Author: Abraham ben David, of Posquières, approximately 1125-1198 אברהם בן דוד מפוסקיר
Title: פרוש ספר יצירה
Title: Perush Sefer Yetsirah

Anonym.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 113 folios (113+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 155 × 115 mm.
Dimensions (written): 108 × 69 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

16 quires: i2, ii-iv8, v-vi6, vii-xv8, xvi4-1.

Signatures in pencil added later. Signature 5 appears twice by mistake: for quire v (ff. 27-32) and quire vi (ff. 33-38).

Condition

Usage stains.

Slight worm damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22

Written lines: 22

Uniform layout.

Hair side and flesh side are distinguishable.

Ruling is visible.

Ff. 3r-19r: in the tractate about the Hebrew letters, each section discussing a letter of the Hebrew alphabet begins with the relevant letter in a circle.

A few marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

Decoration

Diagrams e.g. on ff. 41v, 69v, 102v.

Additions:

Ff. 1v-2v: notes in Hebrew, among others an incomplete list of the months with the number of days in each; sayings and poem.

Binding

Post-1600. Half-bound; blue marble paper covers.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '293 ס' יצירה פיר' ס' יצירה וכו'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 293; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 7 March 1928.

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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