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Or 12272
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- Eshel Avraham by Mordekhai ben Yehudah Leyb Ashkenazi (Part 3)
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- Extent:
- 304 folios (i+304+ii)
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- Start Date:
- 1600
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- 1699
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Or 12272
Eshel Avraham by Mordekhai ben Yehudah Leyb Ashkenazi (Part 3)
Contents
A commentary on the Zohar, Zohar Ḥadash and Tiḳune ha-Zohar.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-2Title: אשל אברהם (חלק שלישי)Title: Eshel Avraham (ḥeleḳ shelishi)Incipit: חלק שלשי מספר א"א שלו נדפס עדייןBased on the teachings of his teacher Abraham Rovigo.
Headed with a comment in Italian: "third part of a not-yet-printed book א"א". The first part was printed in 5461 (in 1700/1).
In the margins and between the lines are numerous corrections and supplement, some of which are notes in Italian, perhaps by the hand of Abraham Rovigo.
About the author, see G. Scholem, Studies and Texts Concerning the History of Sabbetianism, 1937, p. 10 onward.
Numerous corrections, deletions, marginal notes.
Incomplete at the end.
Autograph.
According to the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996; unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room), this manuscript contains the third part of Aderet Eliyahu, a commentary on the Zohar by Elijah ben Menahem (sic!) Loanz.
Filiation:Cf. Cambrdige, UL Add 388; the second half of the composition.
Physical Description
Paper codex of the 17th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport:Extent: 304 folios (i+304+ii)Dimensions (leaf): 225 × 160 mm.Dimensions (written): 145 × 100 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil. F. 3 is missing; f. 2 is followed by f. 4; however, Hebrew foliation is continuous.
Parallel Hebrew foliation.
Collation
Indeterminable.
Catchword on almost every page.
Condition
Water damage, iron gall ink corrosion.
Layout
Columns:1
Section headings are in larger, square script.
Hand(s)
Ashkenazi semi-cursive and Italian Hebrew cursive scripts of the 17th century.
Ff. 161r-177v (until line 21) and 206r-207v (until beginning of line 8): Italian Hebrew cursive script.
Additions:Binding
Post-1600, green cloth binding.
History
Origin: 1600-1699 17th centuryProvenance and Acquisition
Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 572; 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).Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12272 (digital images currently unavailable)
Bibliography
Scholem, Gershom, Meḥḳarim u-meḳorot le-toldot ha-Shabtaʾut ṿe-gilguleha / Studies and texts concerning the history of Sabbetianism and its metamorphoses (Jerusalem: Mosad Bialiḳ, 1974).Salah, Asher, La république des lettres: rabbins, écrivains et médecins juifs en Italie au XVIIIe siècle (Leiden: Brill, 2007), p. 573.Funding of Cataloguing
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