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Or 10246

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Or 10246
Title:
Kanfe Yonah by Menahem Azariah Fano
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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:
86 folios (i+86+iii)
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1600-1799
Era:
CE
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Names:
Fano, Menahem Azariah, Italian rabbi, 1548-1620
Fano, Menahem Azariah, Italian rabbi, 1548-1620
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 10246

Kanfe Yonah by Menahem Azariah Fano

Contents

A kabbalistic work on prayer.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-86r
Author: מנחם עזריה, מפאנו Fano, Menahem Azariah da 1548-1620
Title: כנפי יונה (חלק א)
Title: Kanfe Yonah (ḥeleḳ 1)
Incipit: תפלה נוראה על דרך הנסתר

Title in pencil on f. 1r is added by M. Gaster: 'ס' כנפי יונה.

Ff. 1r-6r: תפלה נוראה על דרך הנסתר; ff. 7r-7v: תפלה נאם ... להתפלל כל הבא אל הקדש פנימה....

Kanfe Yonah starts on f. 8r. It contains 110 simanim.

F. 86v: סוד הטבות חלום; incomplete at the end.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th-18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 86 folios (i+86+iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 149 × 102 mm.
Dimensions (written): 108 × 61 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

F. 6 is blank.

Unfoliated blank leaf after f. 6 (called 6a on digital surrogate).

Back flyleaf (i) and (ii) are the original leather covers of the codex.

Collation

Indeterminable due to tight binding.

Catchword on almost every verso.

Condition

Usage stains, worm damage.

Iron gall ink corrosion.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22

Written lines: 22

Uniform layout.

Section headings are in larger, square characters.

Marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew semi-cursive and square script of the 17th-18th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600; white cloth binding.

M. Gaster's label on spine: 'כנפי יונה 1332'.

History

Origin: 1600-1799 17th-18th century Italy?

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1332; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 15 January 1932.

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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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10246 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

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