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Or 10649
- Record Id:
- 032-003391688
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100053334456.0x000001
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- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 10649
- Title:
- Kabbalistic miscellany
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- 032-003391688
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 75 folios (i+75+ii)
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10649 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
- Scripts:
- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 1600-1699
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Or 10649
Kabbalistic miscellany
Contents
A collection of kabbalistic texts.
Language(s): Hebrew
Physical Description
Composite paper codex of the 17th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport:Extent: 75 folios (i+75+ii)Additions:Note in Hebrew on back pastedown about expenses: לזיכרון הוצאה, and it mentions קירש (qursh or qirsh), a subdivision of a currency used in several Arabic-speaking countries.
Binding
Brown leather binding; blind-tooled, with a pair of leather toggles. Boxed.
Old label on spine: 'יג/30'; M. Gaster's label on spine: '265 כוונות ארי - שושן סודות'.
In the digital surrogate the front binding board with toggles open is called back flyleaf (iii)r; the back binding board with toggles open is called back flyleaf (iii)v; and the fore edge is called back flyleaf (iv)r.
History
Origin: 1600-1699 17th centuryProvenance and Acquisition
Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 265; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 18 February 1928.
I
Contents
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-32rTitle: הגהות על פרי עץ חיים לחיים ויטלTitle: Hagahot ʿal Peri ʿets ḥayim le-Ḥayim ṾitalColophon:Physical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Paper with laid lines and chain lines.Extent: 32 foliosDimensions (leaf): 222 × 158 mm.Dimensions (written): 190 × 115 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.
F. 32v is blank.
Collation
4 quires of 8 leaves.
Catchword on every verso.
Condition
Usage stains, dirt, iron gall ink corrosion.
Layout
Columns:1
Section headings are in larger, square characters.
Hand(s)
Oriental Hebrew semi-cursive and square script of the 17th century.
History
Origin: 1600-1699 17th centuryII
Contents
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 33r-50vTitle: חבור המבוסס על קבלת האר"יTitle: Ḥibur ha-mevusas ʿal ḳabalat ha-ʾAriPhysical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, tre-lune watermark (e.g. f. 48).Extent: 32 folios (ff. 18)Dimensions (leaf): 218 × 154 mm.Dimensions (written): 165 × 117 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil; continuous with the previous part.
Ff. 44v and 45r are blank.
2 unfoliated blank leaves after f. 50.
Collation
3 quires: i-ii8 (ff. 33-40, 41-48), iii2 (ff. 49-50).
Catchword on every verso.
Condition
Usage stains, dirt, iron gall ink corrosion.
Layout
Columns:1
Written lines: 33 35
Uniform layout.
Left margins are not justified.
Some erasures, corrections in the text.
Hand(s)
Oriental Hebrew semi-cursive script of the 17th century.
History
Origin: 1600-1699 17th centuryIII
Contents
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 51r-75rTitle: חבור המבוסס על קבלת האר"יTitle: Ḥibur ha-mevusas ʿal ḳabalat ha-ʾAriPhysical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, tre-lune watermark (e.g. f. 74)..Extent: 25 folios (ff. 51-75)Dimensions (leaf): 219 × 157 mm.Dimensions (written): 190 × 115 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil; continuous with the previous part.
Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink, f. 51 = f. כו.
Collation
3 quires: i6 (ff. 51-56), ii-iii8 (ff. 57-64, 65-72), iv4. Quire iv includes back flyleaf (i).
Catchword on every verso.
Condition
Usage stains, dirt, smudged ink, worm damage, iron gall ink corrosion.
Layout
Columns:1 2
Written lines: 33 35
.
Left margins are not justified.
Some erasures, corrections in the text.
Hand(s)
Oriental Hebrew semi-cursive and square script of the 17th century.
History
Origin: 1600-1699 17th centuryAdditional Information
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_10649 (digital images currently unavailable)
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