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Or 12353

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032-003391439
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Or 12353
Title:
Sermons by Ḥayyim Vital
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
195 folios (i+195+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1611
End Date:
1611
Date Range:
1611
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Hebrew
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
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
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Or 12353

Sermons by Ḥayyim Vital

Contents

A selection of sermons.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-195r
Author: ויטל, חיים בן יוסף Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542 or 1543-1620
Title: לקוטים ודרושים (בלתי שלם)
Title: Liḳuṭim u-derushim (bilti shalem)

With notes, commentaries and corrections in the margins and between the lines, handwritten by Shmuʾel Ibn Sid, Aharon Hayun and others.

Incomplete at the beginning.

Filiation:

The beginning of the manuscript is in the National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, MS. 28°531.

Colophon: תמו ונשלמו דברי הרב המקובל האלהי מורנו כמהר"ר יצחק אשכנזי תנצב"ה אשר העתקתי אותם מהרב השלם המקובל האלהי כמה"ר יוספ מקובל דידיע טבול ... נשלם כ"ח טבת שנת השע"א f. 195r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, unidentified watermark (e.g. f. 77).
Extent: 195 folios (i+195+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 208 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 165 × 104 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink. It shows that at least 34 leaves are missing from the beginning: f. 1= f. לה.

Unfoliated leaf after f. 49.

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves.>

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains, iron gall ink corrosion, foxing.

Water damage.

Fingerprint on f. 128v.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 24

Written lines: 24

Section headings are in larger, square characters.

Ruling is visible.

Marginal notes (with manicula on f. 187r).

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew semi-cursive and square script of the 17th century.

Binding

Post-1600, dark cloth binding. In phase box.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1611

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 280; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 22 February 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).

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