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Or 10732

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Or 10732
Title:
Kabbalistic miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
130 (ii+130+i) folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1555
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1555
Date Range:
1555
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Material Type:
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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 10732

Kabbalistic miscellany

Contents

A collection of three kabbalistic treatises.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 2r-40v
Title: פרוש שם של שבעים ושתים
Title: Perush shem shel shivʿim u-shetayim

Colophon:
ff. 41r-45v
Title: Perush ha-otiyot: perush ha-otiyot ʿim haḳdamah u-ferush
Title: פרוש האותיות: פרוש האותיות עם הקדמה ופרוש

Colophon:
ff. 45v-130r
Title: ספר התמונה
Title: Sefer ha-temunah
Incipit: בכל עת יהיו בגדיך לבני' ושמן על ראשך אל יחסר: והם בגדי

Colophon: נשלם בעזרת הוזר האמיתי יום א' ג' לחדש טבת שי"ו לפ"ק פה טיבולי ע"י המר והעלוב ... הזמן הצעיר יהודה יצו בכאמ' אליאב ז"ל מסלמונה: ישתבח בעל הרון f. 130r

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, watermarks: scissors (e.g. ff. 118-119, 116 and 121).; ladder in an oval (e.g. ff. 94-95, cf. Briquet nos. 5930-5931); six-point star in circle (e.g. ff. 59, 60).
Extent: 130 (ii+130+i) folios
Dimensions (leaf): 229 × 165 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 150 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

16 quires: i10 (ff. 1-10), ii-8 (ff. 11-18, 19-26, 27-34, 35-42, 43-50, 51-58, 59-66, 67-74, 75-82, 83-90, 91-98, 99-106, 107-114, 115-122, 123-130)

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

A few usage stains, slight water damage.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 30

Written lines: 30

Uniform layout.

Main text accompanied with commentary on smaller characters.

Section headings are in larger, square script.

Ruling is visible.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew semi-cursive and square script of the 16th century. Scribe: Judah ben Eliav of Sulmona.

Decoration

Initial words in red ink (e.g. ff. 2r, 5r).

Additions:

Hebrew note on f. 1r.

Binding

Brown leather binding, blind-tooled. Boxed.

Sticker on the front cover: '336/11'.

Sticker on spine: 'ס' התמונה כ"י'; additional sticker by M. Gaster: '717'.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1555 Italy (Tivoli)

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchase note by Moses Gaster dated 5664(?), that is 1903/4: קנין כספי אני הצעיר משה גאסטער ס"ט התרק"ד (f. 1r).

Censors' signatures on f. 130r: 'Revisto per mi fra Luigi da Bologna marzo 1599'; 'Camillo Jaghel 1613'; 'Ego fra Renatus à ord.is Capp.rā vidi anno 1621'.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 717; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 8 November 1929.

Record Sources

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

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