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Title:
Sefer ha-derushim by Ḥayyim Vital
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
209 folios (i+209+i)
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Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
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CE
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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
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Or 10600

Sefer ha-derushim by Ḥayyim Vital

Contents

Kabbalistic discourses (derushim, inyanim, sodot), by the school of Luria-Vital, on biblical subjects.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-209r
Author: ויטל, חיים בן יוסף Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542 or 1543-1620
Title: ספר הדרושים
Title: Sefer ha-derushim

With notes and several commentaries in the margins.

Ff. 200v-209r: index.

Includes the commentary on Idra zuṭa.

Index: ff. 200v-209r (on different, most shiny leaves).

Colophon: הכתוב הצעיר אברהם בכר"ר יאודה סימן טוב f. 199v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, ff. 1-199: circle with unidentified object inside (e.g. f. 13), and shamrock between letters A and B (e.g. f. 39); ff. 200-209: watermark: crown (e.g. f. 204) and shamrock between letters A and C (e.g. f. 208).
Extent: 209 folios (i+209+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 199 × 146 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink.

Ff. 10v and 209v are blank.

Collation

Indeterminable due to tight binding.

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Worm damage, usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Number of written lines per page varies.

Hand(s)

Turkish Sefardi Hebrew cursive script of the 18th century.

Binding

Post-1600, black cloth binding. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: 'ספר הריאל 641'.

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 641; 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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