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Or 10620

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032-003392608
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Or 10620
Title:
Kabbalistic miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
80 folios (no flyleaf)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Names:
Bacharach, Naphtali ben Jacob Elhanan, kabbalist, fl 17th century
Bacharach, Naphtali ben Jacob Elhanan, kabbalist, fl 17th century
Delmedigo, Joseph Solomon, rabbi, philosopher and mathematician, 1591-1655,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/viaf_66524426
Delmedigo, Joseph Solomon, rabbi, philosopher and mathematician, 1591-1655,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/viaf_66524426
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 10620

Kabbalistic miscellany

Contents

A collection of kabbalistic works.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-13v
Title: תולדות האר"י
Title: Toldot ha-ʾAri

Ff. 1r-3r: vocalised.

Colophon:
ff. 14r-15v
Title: מעשה בר’ אלעזר בן שמעון בר יוחאי
Title: Maʿaśeh be-R. Elazar ben Shimeʿon bar Yoḥai

Note probably by the scribe on f. 15v with Casale Monferrato mentioned and with some deletion (probably the name of the scribe): עד כאן ... מקסאל מונפראטו

Colophon:
ff. 16r-22v
Title: מעשה יוסף דילה ריינה
Title: Maʿaśeh Yosef dela Renah

Colophon:
ff. 23r-23v
Title: פטירת אהרן
Title: Peṭirat Aharon

Colophon:
ff. 24r-27r
Author: ויטל, חיים בן יוסף Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542 or 1543-1620
Title: עץ חיים (הקדמה)
Title: ʿEts ḥayim (haḳdamah)

Extracts.

Colophon:
ff. 27v-28v
Author: בכרך, נפתלי הירץ בן יעקב אלחנן Bacharach, Naphtali ben Jacob Elhanan, active 17th century
Title: עמק המלך (לקוטים)
Title: ʿEmeḳ ha-melekh (liḳuṭim)

Copied from the printed edition of Amsterdam 5408 (1647/8).

Extracts.

Colophon:
ff. 29r-30v
Title: רחוק מליסנדריה כמו חצי פרסה ראינו גיבור אחד עם חמשה
Title: Raḥoḳ me-Lisandria kemo ḥetsi parsah rainu gibor eḥad ʿim ḥamishah

A poem in 36 quatrains.

See Davidson, Otsar ha-Shirah ṿeha-Piyuṭ, ר 816.

Colophon:
ff. 30v-61r
Author: דילמדיגו, יוסף שלמה Delmedigo, Joseph Solomon, 1591-1655
Title: לקוטים
Title: Liḳuṭim

Copied from the printed edition Basel, 5389-5391 (1628/9-1630/31), printed by Shemuel Ashkenazi.

F. 30v: קיצור עולם התיקון למהר"ר יש"ר ...; f. 35v: ספר שבר יוסף; f. 53r: קבלת הרב האלהי ר' ישראל סרוג שקבל פה אל פה ממהר"ר יצחק אשכנז זצוק"ל.

Colophon:
ff. 61v-80v
Title: דרושים על פסוקי מקרא, חדושים ושו"ת
Title: Derushim ʿal pesuḳe Miḳraʾ, ḥidushim ṿe-shut

F. 63v: Nizza Monferrato and the date Av 5536 (1776) mentioned: פה ניצא מונפיראטו באב התקל"ו.

Ff. 66r-66v: two letters to Yosef Ḥayim Azulai, dated 5534 (1773/4); one from Alessandria (אסלידנדריא), the other from Casale (קסאלי).

F. 67r: כתובות דף יג ע"ב ההוא ארוס וארוסתו; f. 69r: זהו דעת יצחק כמהר"ר משה פורמיגיני זלה"ה.

Ff. 74r-79r: responsum on a servant who became pregnant in an adulterous relationship; incomplete at the end.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 80 folios (no flyleaf)
Dimensions (leaf): 194 × 151 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink.

F. 11 seems to be out of sequence, and f. 10v should be followed by f. 12r.

F. 65v is blank.

2 blank unfoliated leaves after f. 65.

Collation

6 quires: i10+3, ii-iii16, iv16-1, v10+2, vi12-1.

Catchwords on most of the pages.

Condition

Iron gall ink corrosion, usage stains, ink stains.

Wax stains(?) on f. 63.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Number of written lines per page varies.

Section headings are in larger, often square characters.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew cursive script of the 18th century.

Additions:

F. 65r: two smaller paper slips glued onto the page; with notes probably by the same hand.

Italian inscriptions on back pastedown: 'a Cart｢...｣ Sei Numar tredece milla f｢...｣tia'; 'Gianscristica Semipelagiana?'; '｢...｣elsi tittolo del verme da setta'.

Binding

Post-1600, marble paper covers. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: 'קובץ ספרי קבלה ... 440'.

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 440; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 28 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).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10620 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    מ’ בניהו, ספר תולדות האר"י, ירושלים תשכ"ז, עמ’ 131 מס’ יט.

Funding of Cataloguing

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