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Or 9806

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032-003443034
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Or 9806
Title:
Peri ʿets ḥayim by Ḥayyim Vital
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
65 folios (i+65+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 9806

Peri ʿets ḥayim by Ḥayyim Vital

Contents

Kabbalistic work.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-65r
Author: ויטל, חיים בן יוסף Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542 or 1543-1620
Title: פרי עץ חיים (ענף רביעי, שער הנבואה ורוח הקדש)
Title: Peri ʿets ḥayim (Anaf reviʿi, Shaʿar ha-Nevuʾah ṿe-Ruaḥ ha-Ḳodesh)

F. 1r: ענף ד' מספר פרי עץ חיים והוא שער הנבואה ורוח קודש ויתחלק לשלשים ושבעה פרקים.

Tables on f. 25r; diagrams on ff. 56v, 57r (Magen David), 58r, 65r; letters of a cryptic alphabet on ff. 57v, 58v.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: a variation of Britannia? (e.g. ff. 11, 12), 'J. HONIG & ZOON' (e.g. ff. 13, 14, 15, 57, 63), unidentified watermark (shiled?) (e.g. ff. 47, 65).
Extent: 65 folios (i+65+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 191 × 152 mm.
Dimensions (written): 153 × 124 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink by the scribe.

Collation

Catchword on most pages.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage, iron gall ink corrosion.

F. 1 is very damaged, repaired with silk gauze, loss of text.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 23 27

Justified left margins.

Section headings are in larger, square script.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi cursive and square script of the 18th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

BM in-house.

Title on spine: 'Ḥayyim Vital. Shaʿar Hannebuah. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. OR. 9806.'

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Two names in the inner margin of f. 58v: ראובן בן פעסיה and משה בן חאנצי

Oval black stamp with the inscription: 'זבד' on ff. 1r, f. 65v.

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (i)v: 'Bought by Department of MSS at Sotherby's sales with Add 41483. 11 June, 1927.'; date of accession 6 October 1927.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and volume IV of Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_9806 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), vol. IV. p. 160.

Funding of Cataloguing

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