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Or 9045

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Or 9045
Title:
Kabbalistic works on the Ten Sefirot
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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:
45 folios (i+45+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Names:
Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, kabbalist and scholar, 1248-1325
Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, kabbalist and scholar, 1248-1325
Ḥalfan, Elijah Menahem ben Abba Mari, fl 16th century
Ḥalfan, Elijah Menaḥem ben Abba Mari
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Or 9045

Kabbalistic works on the Ten Sefirot

Contents

A collection of works on the kabbalistic doctrines of the Sefirot.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-42v
Author: Ḥalfan, Elijah Menaḥem ben Abba Mari חלפן, אליהו מנחם בן אבא מרי
Title: פרוש עשר ספירות
Title: Perush ʿeśer sefirot
Incipit: כתר עליון אהיה אין אויר קדמון

References

Lelli, Fabrizio, 'Ricenzione e interpretazione della cabbalà nel pensiero di Eliyyà Menaḥem Ḥalfan' Rivista di Storia e Letteratura Religiosa 47, no. 3 (2011), pp. 547-572, esp. p. 566.
Lelli, Fabrizio, L'interpretazione teosofica della storia d'Israele nell'Epistola sulla storia della Cabbalà di Eliyyà Menahem ben Abba Mari Halfan, in P. Arfé, I. Caiazzo e A. Sannino (a cura di), Adorare caelestia, gubernare terrena. Atti del colloquio internazionale in onore di Paolo Lucentini (Napoli, 6-7 Novembre 2010) («Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia» 58), Turnhout, Brepols, 2011, pp. 475-505.
f. 43r
Title: שנים עשר שמות ה’ על הקדיש
Title: Shenem ʿaśar shemot H. ʿal ha-Ḳadish
Incipit: י"ב שמות ההויה על הקדיש

In red ink.

ff. 43r-43v
Title: מלאכי עשר ספירות
Title: Malʾakhe ʿeśer sefirot

In red ink.

ff. 43v-45v
Author: Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, 1248- ג’קטילה, יוסף בן אברהם
Title: פסוקים מיוסדים על עשר ספירות
Title: Pesuḳim meyusadim ʿal ʿeśer sefirot

Attributed to Joseph Gikatilla.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, unidentified watermark (a figure? in a circle with a six-pointed star on top, e.g. ff. 5).
Extent: 45 folios (i+45+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 186 × 143 mm.
Dimensions (written): 158 × 103 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

6 quires: i-iv8, v6, vi8-1.

Catchword on every verso (some have been trimmed off).

Condition

Water damage, worm damage, usage stains.

Iron gall ink corrosion.

Leaves are fragile, some of them have been fixed.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 27

Uniform layout.

Ruling is visible.

Ff. 1r-42v: at the beginning of each section about the Ten Sefirot, the text is included into a medallion and written in red ink.

A few marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew cursive and square script of the 16th century, in black and red ink.

Decoration

Additions:

Scribbles in pencil on ff. 15r, 27v, 29v, 32v, 34v, 44v.

Binding

BM in-house binding.

Title on spine: 'Kabbalistic Work. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9045.'

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th century Italy?

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (i)r: 'Bought of C. Smith. 8 April, 1922.' Date of accession 18 April 1922.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and 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_9045 (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), vol. IV. p. 151.

Funding of Cataloguing

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