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Or 12286

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Or 12286
Title:
Sefer Raziʾel and fragment of Reʿamim u-reʿashim
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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:
19 folios
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Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1600-1799
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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
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Or 12286

Sefer Raziʾel and fragment of Reʿamim u-reʿashim

Contents

Treatises on practical kabbalah.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-17v
Title: ספר רזיאל
Title: Sefer Raziʾel
Incipit: ספר רזיאל המלאך - למעלה ולמטה כנגד י"ב המחולקים ד' למעלה ולמטה כנגד י"ב המחולקים ד' למעלה

Incomplete at the beginning and at the end, with lacunae in the text.

The order of the leaves is incorrect.

ff. 18r-19v
Title: רעמים ורעשים
Title: Reʿamim u-reʿashim
Incipit: ואם ירעיש ביום אחר החיסור שובע גדול יהיה במזרח ומלך מזרח יצא עם חיילותיו
Explicit: ואם ירעיש ביום קודם החיסור קטטות יחיו באותו האקלים ושובע גדול יהיה רק ההיין יהיה מעט ומשא ומתן יהיה מעט

Incomplete at the end.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th-18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 19 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 245 × 179 mm.
Dimensions (written): 195 × 150 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink; not continuous, and not in order: f. 1 = f. כא, f. 2 = f. לז, f. 5 = f. מב, f. 6 = f. נט, f. 9 = f. סז, f. 12 = f. ל"ח, f. 13 = f. ע"ב, etc. Ff. 18-19 are foliated as ff. ק-קא.

Collation

Catchword on every verso; often does not match the following page (e.g. between ff. 1 and 2, ff. 2 and 3, ff. 5 and 6, etc.).

Condition

Usage stains, water damage, slight iron gall ink corrosion.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruling and pricking are visible in places.

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive and square script of the 17th-18th century; partially vocalised.

Decoration

Kabbalistic diagrams, cryptic characters (e.g. ff. 8r, 8v, 14v, 15v, 17r).

Additions:

M. Gaster's note on f. 19v: '19 fols M.G. x.906 out of least 101 fols'.

Binding

Post-1600, black cloth binding. In flap case.

History

Origin: 1600-1799 17th-18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

M. Gaster's note on f. 1r: 'from I. Mamwee Manchester'.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 707; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 28 October 1929.

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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Bibliography

    Rebiger, Bill, Zur Redaktionsgeschichte des 'Sefer Raziʾel ha-Malʾakh' Frankfurter Judaistische Beiträge 32 (2005), pp. 1-22, esp. p. 9 n27.

Funding of Cataloguing

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