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Or 10724

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032-003394644
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Or 10724
Title:
Kabbalistic miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
115 folios (i+115+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 10724

Kabbalistic miscellany

Contents

A collection of kabbalistic texts.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-33v
Title: ספר הקנה
Title: Sefer ha-ḳanah
Explicit: תיראו וגם הבינה נקראת את

Incomplete at the beginning.

Lacuna after f. 2.

Unfinished at the end?

Colophon:
ff. 34r-113v
Title: ספר הפליאה
Title: Sefer ha-peliʾah
Explicit: זהו מה שמצאתי ממנו האל יזמין ההשלמה וישלים מא...

Colophon:
ff. 114r-115v
Title: דין הנפש
Title: Din ha-nefesh

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, watermark: hand with five petal flower on top (e.g. ff. 74-75).
Extent: 115 folios (i+115+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 206 × 153 mm.
Dimensions (written): 148 × 101 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink, f. 2 = f. יג; that is, at least 11 leaves are missing from the beginning.

Note about the order of the leaves on top of f. 81r.

F. 81v is blank.

Collation

8 quires: itwo (ff. 1-2), ii16 (ff. 3-18), iii18-3 (ff. 19-33), iv-v16 (34-49, 50-65), vi18 (ff. 66-83), vii-viii16 (ff. 84-99, 100-115).

Signatures in Hebrew characters on ff. 18v, 19r; then the numbering restarts on ff. 34r, 49v, 50r, 65v, 66r, 81r, 83v (signatures has been erasured here, only traces left), 84r, 99v, 100r. The fact that the signatures restart on f. 34 suggests that ff. 1-33 and ff. 34-115 used to be separate volumes.

Catchword on most verso sides.

Condition

Usage stains, worm damage, mould.

Some leaves have been fixed; loss of text on f. 1.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 29

Written lines: 29

Ruling is visible.

Section headings are in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive script of the 16th century. The word Ḥayim is marked on ff. 3r and 100v; perhaps marking the scribe's name.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600, brown cloth binding. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '1393 ספר הקנה וכ''.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1393; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 5 February 1932.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10724 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing

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