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Or 9163

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032-003450482
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Or 9163
Title:
Kanfe Yonah by Menahem Azariah da Fano (fragment)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
117 folios (ii+117+ii)
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Languages:
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1750
End Date:
1750
Date Range:
1750
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CE
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Names:
Fano, Menahem Azariah, Italian rabbi, 1548-1620
Fano, Menahem Azariah, Italian rabbi, 1548-1620
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Or 9163

Kanfe Yonah by Menahem Azariah da Fano (fragment)

Contents

Kabbalistic notes based upon the teachings of Isaac Luria and compiled by Menahem Azariah da Fano.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-114v
Author: מנחם עזריה, מפאנו Fano, Menahem Azariah da 1548-1620
Title: כנפי יונה (חלק א-ה)
Title: Kanfe Yonah (ḥeleḳ 1-5)

Includes five parts.

According to the colophon, this manuscript was copied by Jacob ben Joseph Milul for Isaac Núñez at Livorno from an unknown manuscript copied by Ḥiya ha-Kohen de Lara for David Núñez in the year 5496 AM (1735/6 CE). The latter again having been copied from an Ashkenazi manuscript.

Filiation:

Another manuscript of Kanfe Yonah copied by de Lara is Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Michael 531 (Neubauer 1310).

ff. 1r-36v
Title: Part 1
Colophon: ועכשיו נעתק ע"י אני הצעיר יעקב בכ"ר יוסף מלול ס"ט פה ליוורנו ... כ"ח בחדש אלול התק"י ליצירה" f. 36v
ff. 37r-62v
Title: Part 2
ff. 63r-96v
Title: Part 3
ff. 97r-106v
Title: Part 4
ff. 107r-117v
Title: Part 5
Colophon: דברי המעתיק ... פה ליוורנו העיר ה’ את רוח ... יצחק נוניס ואיש יצ"ו והזיל זהב מכיסו כדי להעתיקו ע"י אני ... יעקב בכ"ר יוסף מלול היום יום ב’ עשרה ימים לחדש ניסן שנת א’ש’י’ר’ה’ לפ"ג f. 114v

References

On de Lara and his copyings see Y. Avivi, Kabbalat ha-Ari vol. 2 (Jerusalem, 2008), pp. 773-774.
י’ אביבי, כתבי האר"י באיטליה, ספונות יט (תשמ"ט), עמ’ 362-364.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; crowned shield with three balls (e.g. ff. 64-65), countermark: 'A M' (ff. 54, 67).
Extent: 117 folios (ii+117+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 160 mm.
Dimensions (written): 175 × 133 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil in the lower part of the inner margin, fairly visible on most pages.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink in the upper outer corner.

Collation

Indeterminable due to tight binding.

Catchword on every page.

Condition

A few usage stains, worm damage, iron gall ink corrosion.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 26

Written lines: 26

Section headings are in larger, square script.

Hand(s)

Sefardi cursive and quare script of the 18th century. Scribe: Jacob ben Joseph Milul.

Binding

BM in-house; black cloth binding, with red edges.

Title on spine: 'Menahem Azariah de Fano. Kanphe Yonah. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 9163.'

History

Origin: 1750 Italy (Livorno)

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquisition note on back flyleaf (ii)v: 'Bought of Dr. H. Rosenberg. 8 July 1922.'; date of accession 15 July 1922.

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_9163 (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. 157.

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