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Or 10646
Title:
Peri ʿets ḥayim by Ḥayyim Vital
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
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115 folios (115+i)
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Start Date:
1706
End Date:
1706
Date Range:
1706
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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 10646

Peri ʿets ḥayim by Ḥayyim Vital

Contents

Kabbalistic treatise on the festivals.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-115v
.
Author: ויטל, חיים בן יוסף Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542 or 1543-1620
Title: פרי עץ חיים
Title: Peri ʿets ḥayim
Incipit: בשבת ונמצא כי בי"ט כל קבלת ... אינו ...

Incomplete at the beginning and at the end.

Ff. 1r-3v: end of ענין השבת, ff. 4r-7v: ענין ראש חדש, ff. 8r-9r: ענין חנוכה, ff. 9r-12v: פורים, ff. 13r-23r: ענין פסח, ff. 23r-56v: סדר שבועות, ff. 57r-: ענין תפילות ראש השנה, etc.

Colophon: נשלם כתיבתו יום ב’ כ’ אלול תס"ו לפ"ק הכותב חיים בהרב מהר"ר שמואל פייווש כץ זצ"ל נכד לבעל הסמ"ע

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 115 folios (115+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 138 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

F. 93v is blank (apart from catchword).

Unfoliated blank leaf after ff. 3, 40 and 79.

Collation

Indeterminable due to tight binding.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage, mould, slight worm damage.

First and last several leaves are damaged.

Slight iron gall ink corrosion.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 20

Written lines: 20

Uniform layout.

Section headings are in larger characters.

Justified left margins.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive script of the 18th century. Scribe: Ḥayyim ben Shemuel Feivush (?) (חיים בן שמואל פייוש).

Binding

Post-1600, white cloth binding.

History

Origin: 1706

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1487; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 18 March 1932.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel.

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