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Or 12258

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Or 12258
Title:
Ḥayyim Vital's Sheʿarim
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
197 folios (no flyleaves)
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Languages:
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Start Date:
1805
End Date:
1808
Date Range:
1805-1808
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Joseph Mizrahi
Menahem Crispin
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
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Or 12258

Ḥayyim Vital's Sheʿarim

Contents

A collection of kabbalistic works.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-197v
Author: ויטל, חיים בן יוסף Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542 or 1543-1620
Title: השערים
Title: ha-Sheʿarim

Two chapters of Shemonah Sheʿarim, a compilation by Samuel Vital from the writings of his father, Ḥayyim Vital, which latter are themselves derived from the oral teachings of Isaac Luria.

According to the author's colophons on ff. 84r and 191v, Vital composed this work in Damascus in 5413 (1652/3).

Scribal colophon f. 84r mentions two scribes: Menahem Crispin, who copied the work in Jerusalem in 5529 (1768/9), and Joseph Mizrahi (the scribe who wrote the colophon), who copied the work in Istambul in 5566 (1805/6). The reference to the first copist, Menahem refers to the manuscript from which this one was copied by Joseph. Cf. colophons in Paris, Bibliotheque de l'Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales Heb. 42; Library of Mossad ha-Rav Kook Jerusalem Israel Ms. 512 and 879.

ff. 1r-95r
Title: Shaʿar ha-mitsṿot (Shaʿar 5)

A kabbalistic exposition in the order of the parashiyot of the commandments enjoined in the Pentateuch.

Ff. 85r-95r: Shaʿar ha-mitsṿot - Hashmaṭot

Colophon: Author's colophon: ותהי ראשית מלאכתו בעיר המוהללה דמשק יע"א בחדש אלול ש' הת"י ליצירה ותהי השלמתו בעיר הנז' ביום ה' כ"ח לח' כסליו התיא f. 84r
Colophon: ונעתק בירושלים תוב"ב ע"י כמוה"ר מנחם קריספין ז"ל בשנת התקכ"ט ונעתק פה קושטא ע"י איש צעיר יוספ מזרחי בשנת סוד ה ליריאיו ובריתו להודיעם לפ"ג f. 84r
Colophon: השמטות שמצאתי ב... אחר ... ס' המצות אשר נעתק מכתי' מו... זלה"ה f. 85r
ff. 96r-191v
Title: Shaʿar Ruaḥ ha-ḳodesh (Shaʿar ha-ḳodesh, Shaʿar 7)

Colophon: Author's colophon: ותהי ראשית מלאכתו בעיר דמשך יע"א בחדש טבת שנת התיג ליצירה ותהי השלמתו בעיר דמשק ... בחדש סיון שנת התיג ליצירה f. 191v
ff. 192r-197v
Title: Mafteḥot

Colophon: אתן שנת ס'ו'ד' יי ל'י'רי'א'י'ו' ו'ברי'ת'ו להו'די'עם לפ"ק יום כ"ח לחדש תשרי נכתב בקושטאנדינה f. 197v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: lion (e.g. f. 5).
Extent: 197 folios (no flyleaves)
Dimensions (leaf): 229 × 166 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 118 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink; restarts at f. 96r. F. 28 in the Hebrew foliation is double.

Ff. 84v, 95v are blank.

Collation

Catchword on every page.

Condition

A few usage stains, ink stains, worm damage.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Number of written lines per page varies.

Left margins are justified.

Section headings are in larger, square script.

Running title until f. 117r.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew cursive and square script of the early 19th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Note in Hebrew in the front pastedown beginning: להודיע לדורות ... עושה בדקה בכל עת זה הכותב ספרים ומשאילם לאחרים עליו בכתיב אומר וצדקתו עומדת לעד... .

Binding

Brown leather binding, blind-tooled. In phase box.

History

Origin: 1805-1808 Turkey (Istambul)

Provenance and Acquisition

Signature on f. 196r: אברהם צחק.

Two undeciphered calligraphic signatures on f. 196r.

M. Gaster's note (date of his acquiring the manuscript): 'Nov. 96'.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 195; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 4 February 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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