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Or 10855

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Or 10855
Title:
Commentary on the Pentateuch by Efrayim ben Shimshon
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Extent:
276 folios (i+276+i)
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1669
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1669
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Efrayim ben Shimshon, 12th century-13th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000425376805,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/177489463
Efrayim ben Shimshon, 12th century-13th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000425376805,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/177489463
Eleazar ben Judah, of Worms, c 1176-1238
Eleazar ben Judah, of Worms, c 1176-1238
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 10855

Commentary on the Pentateuch by Efrayim ben Shimshon

Contents

A kabbalistic commentary on the Pentateuch attributed to Efrayim ben Shimshon.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-134v
Author: אפרים בן שמשון Efrayim ben Shimshon, active 12th century-13th century
Title: פרוש על התורה
Title: Perush ʿal ha-Torah
Explicit: עד כאן מצאתי f. 134v

F. 1r: פירוש על תורה להרב רבינו אפרים בר רבינו שמשון ז"ל ואני המעתיק מצאתי זה הספר כתוב אצל חכם גדול וכתוב שחיברו הרב רבי אליעזר מגרמשיא זלה"ה.

ff. 136r-145v
Author: אלעזר בן יהודה מגרמיזא Eleazar ben Judah, of Worms, approximately 1176-1238
Title: שערי בינה
Title: Shaʿare binah
Incipit: פירוש מגלת אסתר מחכמי אשכנז
Explicit: ע"כ מה שמצאתי f. 145v

Colophon: אני הצעיר אברהם בן נח דורה העתקתי זה מכ"י אשכנזית ישן נושן ולראותי בה כולה חידושים אשר לא עלו בדפוס העתקתיה בשנת התכ"ט ליצירה פה דמשק והיה זה ביום י"א ימים לחדש אדר שני ... f. 145v
ff. 146r-153r
Author: ויטל, חיים בן יוסף Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542 or 1543-1620
Title: דרשות
Title: Derashot
Incipit: דרש הרב באלהי כמהר"ר חיים ויטל זלה"ה יום ר"ה אדם ובהמה תושיע יי

ff. 154r-276v
Author: ויטל, חיים בן יוסף Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542 or 1543-1620
Title: ספר הלקוטים
Title: Sefer ha-liḳuṭim
Incipit: בראשית ברא אלהים את השמים וכו' בהיות שהקליפה קדמה לקדושה בכל דבר זה פירושו

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, watermark: crown with a crescent and a six-point star on top (e.g. ff. 230, 232)
Extent: 276 folios (i+276+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 203 × 150 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 105 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Ff. 30v, 48v, 88v, 135v, 153v, 203v, 222v, 230v, 232v, 242v, 244v, 261v, and 269v are blank.

Unfoliated blank folio after f. 134 and after f. 253.

Collation

Indeterminable due to fragile condition of the collation.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage.

F. 1 is almost detached from collation.

A piece of the out margin has been torn off; most probably to remove an ownership inscription (perhaps the same as on f. 12r).

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 34

Written lines: 34 35

Ruling is visible.

Marginal notes.

Section headings in larger, square script.

Hand(s)

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

Additions:

Note in Hebrew on f. 135r.

Notes in pencil on front flyleaf recto: 'v Benjacob פירוש No 715.', 'author? ... XII cent. ca. 1190-1203.'

Binding

Post-1600, quarter bound. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on the spine: 'פ' על התורה ר' אפרים - דרושים הרח"ו 748 '.

History

Origin: 1669 Syria (Damascus)

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscription on f. 13r: שמעיה אנג’ל.

M. Gaster's note on f. 1r: 'Jerusalem 14.v.07'.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 748; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 24 November 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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Bibliography

    פירוש רבינו אפרים ב"ר שמשון וגדולי אשכנז הקדמונים על התורה, ערכו צבי יהושע לייטנר ועזרא קורח (ירושלם : י’ קלוגמאן, תשנ"ג).
    Walfish, Barry, Esther in Medieval Garb: Jewish Interpretation of the Book of Esther in the Middle Ages (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, c1993), p. 318.
    van der Heide, Albert, ‘Now I Know’: Five Centuries of Aqedah Exegesis (Leiden: Springer, 2017), p. 112.
    Shyovitz, David I. A Remembrance of His Wonders: Nature and the Supernatural in Medieval Ashkenaz (Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), p. 260 n50.

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