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Or 10619

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Or 10619
Title:
Sefer ha-Segulot
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
38 folios
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Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
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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
Shemuʾel ha-Kohen
שמואל הכהן
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Or 10619

Sefer ha-Segulot

Contents

A collection of kabbalistic prescriptions.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-33v
Title: ספר הסגלות
Title: Sefer ha-Segulot

Includes charms, amulets, mystical intentions (kavanot) for prayers, etc.

Attributed to, among others: Meʾir Ṭreves (f. 4v), Yiśraʾel Saruk (f. 6v: העתקתי מכ"י החכם כמה"ר סרוק נר"ו), Barukh Albo (f. 10r), Avraham ha-Leṿi (f. 13r) Menahem Recanati (f. 14r) Molkho (f. 19v), Avigdor Kats (f. 23r), Daṿid Tsarfati (f. 24v), etc.

Some characters from cryptic alphabets (e.g. ff. 10v, 13v).

ff. 34r-36v
Author: שמואל הכהן Shemuʾel ha-Kohen
Title: ספר המקדושה
Title: Sefer ha-Ḳedushah

Abridgement of Sefer ha-Ḳedushah (or Sefer Hakhnasat ha-Pardes).

Index on ff. 36r-36v.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 38 folios
Dimensions (leaf): × mm.
Dimensions (written): × mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink by the scribe starting on f. 2r.

Collation

Before f. 1 there are stubs of two leaves (named as flyleaves in the digital surrogate).

6 quires: i4-2, ii-v4, vi4.

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage, worm damage.

Smudged ink.

F. 22 is damaged, upper part has been cut off.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 31

Written lines: 31

Marginal notes.

Certain words, mostly names are underlined in red, probably by a later hand.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew cursive script of the 16th century.

Decoration

Decorated title page, unfinished (f. 1r).

A few small diagram embedded into the text (e.g. ff. 6r, 13r, 16v).

Three small Magen David in ink (f. 24v).

Maniculae (e.g. ff. 28r, 28v).

Additions:

Addition on ff. 1v and 33v by a different, probably later hand in black ink.

Illegible Hebrew note on f. 38v.

Calculation on back pastedown.

Binding

Cardboard binding, very worn. Boxed.

Spine with M. Gaster's label: '138 ספר הסגולות'.

Accompanying Material

Fragment of a leaf after f. 38 (named as f. 38a in digital surrogate): recto side: '...ra Firenze ... rdia Amburgo'; verso side: 'le galline faranno uova tutto l'inverno dando loro nei cibi dell'ortiga fecca. lavandosi le mani con la decogione della radice di ... si fanno bianche.'.

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Name of the patron(?) is crossed out at the lower section of the frame around the title page on f. 1r: של כמורהר"ר......

Black, oval stamp on ff. 1r, 35v, and 38v with illegible inscription; most probably belongs to the censorship note on f. 35v: 'Revisto per me fra Tomaso Inquisitor di Venezia 1691'.

Ownership inscriptions: 'Salomon Vita Servi l'anno 1794' (f. 37r); 'questo libro e di me Moise Isra[...] Pitigliano questo giorno le [...] (f. 37v); 'Io Abramo Amadio Urbini di Mano pro-p[r]ia di Pitigliano'; 'Questo libro sia di me Giusepe Urbini' (f. 37v); לה' הארץ ומלואה - יוסף תצליח אורביני ס"ט (f. 37v); Giuseppe (front flyleaf (i)r, damaged).

Note about debt in Italian on f. 37v: 'Io Apie sotto scrito confeso esere vero ed real dabitore (debitore) alli sigli Frelli cicismej la samaci soldi niente sette mille la non pagarsi mai. che non vogliono così.

Inscription on front pastedown: 'Firenze Livorno Pitigliano'.

M. Gaster's note on f. 36v regarding the date of him acquiring the manuscript: 'v.901.'

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 438; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 28 March 1928.

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_10619 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Kanarfogel, Ephraim, Peering Through the Lattices: Mystical, Magical and Pietistic Dimensions in the Tosafist Period (Detroit, Mi.: Wayne State University Press, 1999), p. 227.

Funding of Cataloguing

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