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Or 10332

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Or 10332
Title:
Kabbalistic rules
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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:
37 folios (no flyleaves)
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Languages:
English
Hebrew
Portuguese
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Latin
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1700-1899
Era:
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 10332

Kabbalistic rules

Contents

Kabbalistic rules and directions for the service in the Synagogue.

Language(s): Hebrew, English, Portuguese

ff. 1r-31v
Title: סדור עם כוונות על דרך הקבלה
Title: Sidur ʿim kaṿanot ʿal derekh ha-Ḳabalah

Contains halakhot with ḳaṿanot (mystical intentions), among others: הלכות בית כנסת (f. 4v); הלכות תפלין (f. 23v); הלכות משא ומתן (f. 30v).

Ff. 16v-17r: list of books, with some English, probably by a later hand.

Ff. 25r-27v: כב כללים

Diagrams on ff. 19v-20r: diagram of the Ten Sefirot: front pastedown, ff. 1r, 13r, 25r.

Ff. 28v-29r: verse from Proverbs 10:2 צדקה תציל ממות with words within the letters. In the upper corner of f. 28v the year 5566 is given (1805/6).

Ff. 31r-30v: calculation in Portuguese beginning 'Irmandadedas Licensas...' with the date 5515-5516 (1755-1756).

F. 31v: some note in English: 'will please to answer - they are going home', and a name in Portuguese?: 'Mordehay Senor...'

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th-19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: round shaped coat of arms with inscription in its circumference and crown on top (e.g. ff. 4, 6, 31).
Extent: 37 folios (no flyleaves)
Dimensions (leaf): 148 × 97 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink on ff. 1-3.

Ff. 16r, 19r, 20v, 21v are blank.

8 unfoliated blank leaves after ff. 18 and 20.

Front pastedown serves as a pocket; ff. 32-37: are loose bifolios in the pocket.

Collation

A single collation of 40 leaves (including unfoliated blank leaves and excluding ff. 32-37).

Condition

Usage stains.

Collation is falling apart, detached from binding, and bifolios are detached from each other; fragile volume.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruling is visible.

Maniculae e.g. ff. 3v, 8r.

Ff. 21-23r: text is running parallel to the spine.

Hand(s)

Sefardi cursive and square scripts and Latin cursive scripts of the 18th-19th century.

Ff. 16v-18v: different, perhaps later hand.

Decoration

Additions:

Ff. 32r-37r: when to recite certain Psalms; from another manuscript; these leaves are in the pocket fixed to the front pastedown.

A small fragment of the Ṿidui from another manuscript is glued onto f. 37v; written in Ashkenazi cursive script.

Binding

Parchment binding. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine.

History

Origin: 1700-1899 18th-19th century

Provenance and Acquisition

M. Gaster's note on f. 1r: 'From Mr. A. Abe... 16.2.904.'

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 604; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 15 April 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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