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Or 10867

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032-003391322
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Or 10867
Title:
Ḥaye ha-ʿolam ha-baʾ by Abraham Abulafia
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
56 folios (iii+56+ii)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10867 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, 1240-1292
Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, 1240-1292
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Guidus Menotius
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Or 10867

Ḥaye ha-ʿolam ha-baʾ by Abraham Abulafia

Contents

Kabbalistic treatise.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-56v
Author: אבולעפיה, אברהם בן שמואל Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, 1240-approximately 1292
Title: חיי העולם הבא
Title: Ḥaye ha-ʿolam ha-baʾ

Ff. 4r-28r: kabbalistic diagrams.

Censorial deletions(?), e.g. ff. 39r, 46v.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th-16th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 56 folios (iii+56+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 224 × 168 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140/145 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

F. 49v is blank.

Collation

6 quires: i-iv10 (ff. 1-40), v8+1 (ff.41-49), vithree (ff. 50-52), 4+1 (ff. 53-56+back flyleaf).

Signature at the end and beginning of quires, catchwords at the end of quires.

Condition

Usage stains, worm damage.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 28 31

Written lines: 28 30

Hair and flesh sides are distinguishable.

Ruling and pricking are visible.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew semi-cursive script of the 15th-16th century.

Binding

Post-1600, black cloth binding. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: 'Abulafia 1054 פירוש שם המפורש וכ' קלף'.

History

Origin: 1400-1599 15th-16th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Censor's signature by Guidus Menotius on ff. 1r and 50r: 'Subsignavi ego Guidus Menotius regien. not.s de manto ... di D. Jac. Geraldini comissi Ap｢osto｣lici et ducalis die 18 Martii 1556'.

Censor's signature by Fra Luigi (da Bologna?) on f. 56v: 'Visto per me fra Luigi del 1600'.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1054; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 3 October 1931.

Record Sources

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

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10867 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Schwager-Frankel catalogue 11 (1906), no. 35.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL