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Or 10464
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- Or 10464
- Title:
- Tefilot ʿal derekh ha-Ḳabalah
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 52 folios (52+xx)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
Italian - Scripts:
- Hebrew
Latin - Start Date:
- 1785
- End Date:
- 1813
- Date Range:
- 1785-1813
- Era:
- CE
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Or 10464
Tefilot ʿal derekh ha-Ḳabalah
Contents
Kabbalistic prayer book.
Language(s): Hebrew, Italian
ff. 3r-49vTitle: תפלות על דרך הקבלה תפלות לימודים וכונותTitle: Tefilot ʿal derekh ha-Ḳabalah, tefilot limudim ṿe-khaṿanotBegins with a list of deceased persons from Italy, from between the years 5565-5599 (from 1805 to 1829). At the end of the manuscript are prayers, commentaries and rulings which were added by an italian hand.
The dates 26 Nisan 5545 (1785), 7 Nisan 5573 (1813), 17 Nisan 5601 (1841) and 26 Nisan 5629 (1869) are mentioned on f. 31v: ואני הצעיר ברכתי ברכה זו בשנת התקמ"ה יום ד' כ"ו לחדש ניסן - ויהיה פעם אחרת בשנת התקע"ג... בשנת התר"א ... בשנת התרכ"ט.
Physical Description
Paper codex of the 18th-19th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Paper with hardly visible, delicate laid lines and chain lines; unidentified watermark: a bird with letters V.B. underneath? (e.g. f. 7).Extent: 52 folios (52+xx)Dimensions (leaf): 190 × 126 mm.Dimensions (written): 158 × 100 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.
Parallel Hebrew pagination in ink by the scribe.
Ff. 1r, 15v, 29v, 30r are blank.
Two unfoliated blank leaves after f. 2.
Collation
Indeterminable.
Catchword on every page.
Condition
Usage stains, liquid stains, iron gall ink corrosion, dirt.
Upper part of f. 1 is missing.
Layout
Columns:1 2
Ruled lines: 24
Written lines: 24
Section headings in larger, square script.
Ruling is visible.
Interlinear notes in Italian Hebrew cursive script (e.g. ff. 4r, 19r, 22r).
Hand(s)
Sefardi semi-cursive script of the late 18th - early 19th century.
Additions:F. 2r: list of names in Hebrew.
F. 2v: list of deceased persons from Italy, between the years 5565 and 5599 (1805-1839). At the end, Yitsḥaḳ ... Galiḳo of Ancona is mentioned, and the note is dated '19 luglio 1839'.
Ff. 50r-50v: prayers written by a different hand in Italian Hebrew cursive script including a poem written by Moses Alashkar: הרב מהר"מ אלשקאר.
Ff. 51r-51v is a piece of paper previously folded, now inserted into the collation, on guard: prayers and notes written by a different hand in Italian cursivr script, beginning תפלה קודם פ' שקלים
Two small paperslips are glued onto f. 52r. One has some calculations, the other is apparently used to create a small pocket on the page. The latter seems to be a fragment of a letter written in Italian.
Binding
Post-1600, cardboard covers and leather spine. Boxed.
History
Origin: 1785-1813 Not before 1785 - not after 1813 Italy(?)Provenance and Acquisition
Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 310; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 12 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).Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10464 (digital images currently unavailable)
Bibliography
Funding of Cataloguing
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