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Title:
Yalḳuṭ entsiḳlopedi (ḳetaʿ)
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Extent:
85 folios (i+85+i)
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Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 10644

Yalḳuṭ entsiḳlopedi (ḳetaʿ)

Contents

A portion of an extensive kabbalistic compilation, alphabetically arranged.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-85v
Title: ילקוט אנציקלופדי (ערכים גלות-הלל)
Title: Yalḳuṭ entsiḳlopedi (ʿarakhim galut-halel)
Incipit: מגלה עמוקות ואופן רם) בימי משך רכעה מעל עכן בשלשה
Explicit: הנגלים שעשה ביום חד ונס אינו כמ...ל אדם האומר לחברו דרך

Includes texts on various subjects compiled from the Midrashim, from books of homiletic commentaries, interpretations, ethics and kabbalah, sorted according to the alphabetical order of values and concepts of Judaism: ff. 1r-6v: גלות, ff. 6v-: גמילות חסדים, ff. 7r-7v: גמטריאות, etc. The last topic is הלל הלל הגדול starting on f. 85r

Among the included: compilations from manuscripts that the compiler (מאסף) had. The compiler also added his own notes which begin with: אמר המאסף.

Incomplete at the beginning and at the end.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, watermark: a cluster of grape, above it a crowned cartouche with initials (e.g. ff. 3-4).
Extent: 85 folios (i+85+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 167 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Earlier Hebrew foliation in ink suggests that at least 256 leaves are missing from the beginning of the manuscript: f. 1 = f. רנז. Last Hebrew foliation is on f. 77 = f. שלה; Hebrew foliation skips number שכד.

F. 69v is written upside down.

Collation

Indeterminable.

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Water damage, usage stains, worm damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 31 32

Uniform layout.

Section headings in larger, square characters.

Running title.

Left margin is not justified.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew curive script of the 18th century.

Binding

Post-1600, dark blue cloth binding.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '636 ילקוט ע"ד הקבלה'

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 636; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 9 September 1929.

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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