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Title:
Ḳodesh hilulim by Daṿid ben Abraham Kalfon
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
78 folios (iv+78+ix)
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Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Kalfon, Daṿid ben Avraham, 1650-1749
דוד כאלפון
כלפון, דוד בן אברהם
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Or 12276

Ḳodesh hilulim by Daṿid ben Abraham Kalfon

Contents

Commentary on the Idra Raba and Idra Zuṭa (parts of the Zohar) with the relevant texts of the Zohar.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-78r
Author: כלפון, דוד בן אברהם Kalfon, Daṿid ben Avraham, 1650-1749
Title: קדש הלולים: פרוש האדרא רבא ואדרא זוטא
Title: Ḳodesh hilulim: perush ha-Idra Raba ṿe-Idra zuṭa

Title in manuscript: האדרא רבא קדישא פרשת נשא בע"ה

With texts of Idra Raba and Idra Zuta are included.

‫In his Preface (Haḳdamah), which comes at the end of the work (ff. 77v-78r), and where the title is given, the author states that the commentary was composed in Gibraltar, and was based on that of his teacher, Jacob Maragi. He also added material from the commentary of Menahem Lonzano. F. 77v: בה דברי המחבר ... ואלה דברי דוד האחרונים .. ומארצי למתא ג’יבאלטאר יע"א נקראתי .. וקבלה שקבלתי מאיש אמונים מו"ר כמוה"ר יעקב מאראג’י .. ואני .. יגעתי בדבריו להוציאם לאור .. קראתים קדש הלולים .. ובימים האלה חזרתי לכתוב פי’ אלו האדרות .. בתוספת מרובה על העיקר פי’ על אדרת פ’ האזינו השמים מפי’ .. מנחם לונזאנו

F. 49v: סליקא האדרא רבא קדישא הקב"ה לעסק תורתו ומצותיו ... .

At the end of the manuscript (f. 78r), a poem with the acrostic signature of דוד כאלפון (David Kalfon).

Possibly autograph.

ff. 1r-49v
Title: Commentary on the Idra Raba
ff. 50r-78r
Title: Commentary on the Idra Raba

References

Maragi, Jacob, Perush ha-Idra Zuṭa Ḳadisha (Vienna, 1887).
Lonzano, Menahem, Omer Man, the commentary on Idra Zuṭa (Wilna, 1883).

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 78 folios (iv+78+ix)
Dimensions (leaf): 226 × 189 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 133 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink by the scribe.

Collation

5 quires: i16 (ff. 1-16), ii18 (ff. 17-34), iii-v16 (ff. 35-50, 51-66, 67-78+blank leaves).

Catchword on some pages.

Condition

Usage stains, slight iron gall ink corrosion.

Layout

Columns:3

Written lines: 34 36

Uniform layout.

Running title.

Ruling in hard point and in pencil is visible. Ruling in pencil does not always match current text layout.

A few marginal notes.

Hand(s)

Oriental (North African) Hebrew cursive script of the 18th century.

Binding

Post-1600, leather binding, blind-tooled. Restored spine. In phase box.

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1098; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 7 November 1931.

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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