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Or 10623

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Or 10623
Title:
Shaʿare orah by Gikatilla
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
140 folios (ii+140+viii)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
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
Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, kabbalist and scholar, 1248-1325
Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, kabbalist and scholar, 1248-1325
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Or 10623

Shaʿare orah by Gikatilla

Contents

A treatise on kabbalah.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-140r
Author: ג’יקטיליה, יוסף בן אברהם Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, 1248-
Title: שערי אורה
Title: Shaʿare orah

Physical Description

Paper and parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Outer and inner most bilfolios of the quires are parchment, the ones in between are paper. Paper with laid lines and chain lines, unidentified watermark (e.g. ff. 137, 140).
Extent: 140 folios (ii+140+viii)
Dimensions (leaf): 195 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

12 quires of 12 leaves. Quire xii includes back flyleaves (i)-(iv).

Catchword on every verso.

Singatures in Hebrew characters at the end and beginning of quires. Some of them have beeen trimmed off.

Condition

Iron gall ink corrosion on some of the paper leaves (e.g. f. 39-41, 110-111).

Text has faded in place (e.g. f. 133v).

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 29

Written lines: 26 28

Uniform layout.

Justified left margins.

Ruling is visible in places.

A few marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

Binding

Black leather binding, blind tooled. Fragment of a Latin parchment leaf in binding (see front flyleaf (i)r and back flyleaf (viii)v in digital surrogate). Boxed.

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Notes in Italian, Hebrew and Latin on f. 1r: 'יהושע'; ' dni. abr[...]'; 'Armo mio qunto ann in ... ioe dei ... . Armo ...'; 'Carisimo mio feratelo. Alo molto mio feratelo. Al onor...'; Hebrew note is hardly legible.

Ownership inscriptions on f. 2r: 'של יורשי הקטן פיסק זצ"ל; 'David Halpha ii'; מקנת כספי דוד חלפאן בכ"מ פרץ חלפאן; יורשי הר"ר יעב הקטן

The same ownership inscription on f. 139v and f. 140r: אשר חנן ה' את עבדו יהודה בכמר נתנאל חלפן ז"ל.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 695; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 8 October 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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Surrogates

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