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Or 10639

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Or 10639
Title:
Zot ḥuḳat ha-Torah by Abraham Ḥazkuni
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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:
63 folios (i+63+i)
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Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
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CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
Yosef ibn Malkhi
Ḥazkuni, Abraham ben Hezekiah, d 1627
Ḥazkuni, Abraham ben Hezekiah, d 1627
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Or 10639

Zot ḥuḳat ha-Torah by Abraham Ḥazkuni

Contents

Summary of Contents: An abridgement of Sefer ḳaṿanot of Hayim ben Joseph Vital.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-63v
Author: חזקוני, אברהם בן יחזקיה Ḥazkuni, Abraham, 1627-
Title: Zot ḥuḳat ha-Torah
Title: זאת חקת התורה

With indices and an introduction by the author.

See printed edition, Venice 1759.

Incomplete at the end.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, two circles with a cross inside an oval (e.g. ff. 57, 62).
Extent: 63 folios (i+63+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 204 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 168 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Ff. 4v are blank.

Collation

8 quires: i-ii8, iii6, iv10, v6, vi10, vii8-1, viii8.

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Leaves at the beginning and at the end are damaged, but they have been fixed.

Usage stains, water damage, worm damage.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Written lines: 28 29

Uniform layout.

Section headings in larger, square characters.

Running title.

Hand(s)

Sefardi/North African cursive and square script of the 17th century.

Binding

Post-1600, white cloth binding. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '648 זאת חקת התורה'.

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century

Provenance and Acquisition

List of names (f. 1r).

A note on renting a house with Yosef ibn Malkhi's calligraphic signature at the end (f. 1r).

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 648; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924.

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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