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Or 9168

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Or 9168
Title:
Ruaḥ ḥayim by Hayyim Joseph David Azulai, vol. 1
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
112 folios (ii+112+ii)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9168 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Italian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1800-1899
Era:
CE
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Names:
Azulai, Hayyim Joseph David, 1724-1806
Azulai, Hayyim Joseph David, 1724-1806
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 9168

Ruaḥ ḥayim by Hayyim Joseph David Azulai, vol. 1

Contents

Nineteen discourses (derushim 1-13).

Language(s): Hebrew, Italian

ff. 2r-110v
Author: אזולאי, חיים יוסף דוד Azulai, Hayyim Joseph David, 1724-1806
Title: רוח חיים: דרשות שדרש בשנים תקנ"ט-תקס"ד
Title: Ruaḥ ḥayim: derashot she-darash ba-shanim 559-564

In two volumes; for volume 2, see London, BL, Or 9169.

Beginning is incomplete, at least 2 leaves are missing (see foliation).

Title appears in volume 2, f. 1r: רוח חיים.

Autograph?

ff. 2r-12r
Title: דרוש א' - שבת זכור
ff. 13r-19r
Title: דרוש ב' - שבת הגדול בס"ד תקנא
ff. 20r-28r
Title: דרוש ג' - שבת כלה בס"ד
ff. 29r-39r
Title: דרוש ד' - שבת תשובה בס"ד
ff. 40r-49r
Title: דרוש ה' - שבת זכור בס"ד
ff. 50r-58v
Title: דרוש הששי - שבת הגדול בס"ד

Unfinished at the end.

ff. 59r-59v
Title: Derush 7?

Unfinished at the beginning and end.

ff. 60r-62v
Title: Derush 8?

Unfinished at the beginning and end.

ff. 63r-69v
Title: דרוש ט' שבת זכור 8 אדר תקסא
ff. 70r-78v
Title: דרוש י' - שבת הגדול

Ff. 76v, line 8-78v: written in larger characters.

ff. 79r-85r
Title: דרוש יא' - שבת כלה בס"ד
ff. 88r-97v
Title: דרוש יב' - שבת תשובה בס"ד שדרשתי בס"ד בק"ק ליוורנו ה' תשרי תקסב
ff. 98r-110r
Title: דרוש יג' - שבת זכור בס"ד

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, watermark: sailing-boat (e.g. f. 11) with coutnermark 'M A' (e.g. f. 86).
Extent: 112 folios (ii+112+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 207 × 149 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel foliation in ink; it shows lacuna between ff. 58 and 59: current f. 58 is f. 60 in the earlier foliation; current f. 59 is f. 68 in the earlier foliation. Lacunae also after f. 59 and f. 62.

Collation

Indeterminable.

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Iron gall ink corrosion, worm damage, usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruling consists of only vertical lines. Written lines of the text tend to curve downwards.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew cursive script of the 19th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Ff. 1r, 1v, 76v-78v written in larger characters, and the strokes of the letters are very shaky.

Ff. 11v, 28v, 49v, 85b-87v, 110v-112v and back flyleaf (i)r: calculations and notes in Italian.

Binding

Parchment binding.

Title on spine: 'Azulai. Ruaḥ Ḥayyim. Hebrew. Pt. I. Brit. Mus. - Oriental 9168.'

History

Origin: 1800-1899 19th century Italy (Ancona?)

Provenance and Acquisition

F. 112v: a list written by Mosheh Azulai, the author’s grandson: הספרים שמכרתי לסי’ יצחק ביואנטי.

Acquistion note on back flyleaf (ii)v: 'Bought of Dr. H. Rosenberg. 8 July 1922.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and volume IV of Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9168 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), IV, p. 158.

Funding of Cataloguing

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