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Or 11792

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032-003380107
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Or 11792
Title:
Shaʿare orah by Joseph Gikatilla
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
76 folios (iii+76+vi)
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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:
Carol de Pradel
Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, kabbalist and scholar, 1248-1325
Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, kabbalist and scholar, 1248-1325
J. Leeven
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Or 11792

Shaʿare orah by Joseph Gikatilla

Contents

A kabbalistic treatise on the Divine Names and the Ten Sefirot.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-76r
Author: ג’יקטיליה, יוסף בן אברהם Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, 1248-
Title: שערי אורה
Title: Shaʿare orah
Incipit: שאלת ממני ידיד נפשי להאיר לפניך נתיב בענין שמותיו י"ת להפיק בהם רצונך ולהגיע

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 76 folios (iii+76+vi)
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 157 mm.
Dimensions (written): 149 × 106 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

8 quires of 10 leaves. Quire i includes front flyleaf (iii), and quire viii includes back flyleaves (i)-(iii).

Catchword at the end of each quire.

Condition

A few usage stains.

Outer lower corner of f. 10 has been cut off.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 33

Written lines: 33

Flesh side and hair side are distinguishable.

Ruling is visible.

Ff. 1r-3r: certain words are underlines in red ink, and the same hand added marginal notes in the same red ink.

Some corrections and notes in the margins, some by the scribe (e.g. ff. 10v, 27v, 46v).

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew semi-cursive script of the 15th century. May have been written by the same scribe as [BL] Or 11793.

Decoration

A diagram of the Ten Sefirot on f. 45v.

Binding

Post-1600, brown leather binding; gold-tooled with the coat of arms of Jacques Nicolas Colbert, the Archbishop of Rouen (1654-1707) in the centre.

Title on spine: 'Shaʿarē ōrāh. Joseph Giḳaṭilla. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 11,792.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

The MS once belonged to Carol de Pradel, bishop of Montpellier, 1676-1696; see ownership inscription on the remains of a leaf fixed onto the back pastedown: 'ex libris Biblioteca D. D. Carol[...] De Pradel ep｢i｣s[co]pi Mont[...]. D. Ev. Ap. 10, 1780, From T.P. by Steph.H. [...]

Old catalogue number(?) on f. 1r: '3726'

According to the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, it was acquired by gift from the Inter-Allied Book-Centre, April, 1946; date of accession 30 July 1946: inscribed by J. Leeven on back flyleaf (i)r.

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

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