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Or 10850

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032-003394379
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Or 10850
Title:
Ḳehilat Yaʿaḳov by Ḥayyim Vital
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
177 folios (ii+177+iii)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10850 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1600-1799
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
Luria, Isaac ben Solomon, 1534-1572
Luria, Isaac ben Solomon, 1534-1572
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
Ẓemaḥ, Jacob ben Ḥayyim, 1600-1699
Ẓemaḥ, Jacob ben Ḥayyim, 1600-1699
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Or 10850

Ḳehilat Yaʿaḳov by Ḥayyim Vital

Contents

Summary of Contents: Kabbalistic treatise by Ḥayyim Vital according to his master Isaac Luria with additions and notes by Jacob Ẓemaḥ.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 2r-177r
Author: ויטל, חיים בן יוסף Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542 or 1543-1620
Author: Ẓemaḥ, Jacob ben Ḥayyim active 17th century צמח, יעקב בן חיים
Title: קהלת יעקב
Title: Ḳehilat Yaʿaḳov

F. 54r: שער גן עדן וציור העולמות אני הצעיר חיים ויטאל

Note by the scribe on f. 1v: אני מבקם מאת כל הקורא בספר הזה שאם ימצא בו שום טיעות שידיניני לכפ זכות מפני שא"א לכותב בלא שום טיעות. וכך ידנוהו מן השמים לכף זכות כה דברי המר והנאלח בצרות הזמן הצעיר ע"ה חיים אא ישראל ... ס"ט

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th-18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, watermark: three circles with a cross on top and the letters 'SM' in the middle circle (e.g. ff. 3, 5-6, 117-118).
Extent: 177 folios (ii+177+iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 213 × 154 mm.
Dimensions (written): 152 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink, starting on f. 2 (= f. א).

Ff. 1r and 177v are blank.

Collation

22 quires: i-xiv8 (ff. 2-9, 10-17, 18-25, 26-33, 34-41, 42-49, 50-57, 58-65, 66-73, 74-81, 82-89, 90-97, 98-105, 106-113), xv8-1? (ff. 114-121?), xvi-xxii8 (ff. 122-129, 130-137, 138-145, 146-153, 154-161, 162-169, 170-177).

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 26

Written lines: 26

Uniform layout.

Section headings are in larger, square script.

Hand(s)

Oriental (North African) semi-cursive and square script of the 17th-18th century.

Binding

Brown leather binding, blind-tooled; with remains of a pair of metal clasps. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '945 קהלת יע[קב] ר' יעקב צ[מח]'.

Paper with Hebrew text in the binding.

In the digital surrogate the fore edge is called back flyleaf (iv)r.

History

Origin: 1600-1799 17th-18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscriptions on f. 1r: 'Isaac Serra'; 'M. Gaster'; the latter is written over an erased inscription.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 945; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 9 May 1930.

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

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