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Or 12348

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Or 12348
Title:
Works by Joseph ha-Kohen
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
55 folios (i+55+i)
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Hebrew
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Start Date:
1559
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1560
Date Range:
1559-1560
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Joseph, ha-Kohen, 1496-1578,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120295502,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/82204047
Joseph, ha-Kohen, 1496-1578,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120295502,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/82204047
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Or 12348

Works by Joseph ha-Kohen

Contents

A chronicle of the persecutions suffered by the Jews followed by poems by the same author.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-51r
Author: יוסף בן יהושע הכהן Joseph, ha-Kohen, 1496-1578
Title: עמק הבכא
Title: ʿEmeḳ ha-baka

F. 1r: החילותי לכתוב את הספר הנקרא עמק בכא ביום ראשון לכ"ב מרחשון לשנת שכ"ב

‫ השווה מהדורת ק’ אלמבלאד, אופסאלה תשמ"א, ושם, עמ’ 33-34 תיאור כתב-היד. ‬

Partially autograph (esp. last few pages; see Pilar León Tello, El Valle del Llanto, p. 28).

End of the composition with colophon on f. 55v (upside down).

Two colophons contradict each other: the one of f. 1r says that 'I started to write the book called The Vale of Tears on Marḥeshṿan 1, [5]322', that is October 1561. The colophon at the end of the book on f. 55v however says that the copying of the book was finished on 1 Elul 5320, that is August/September 1560. According to Almbladh, the title page with the first colophon most probably did not belong to this manuscript. T. Kronholm's explanation: 'the date of the title-page... represents the day on which the copyist commenced his work, whilst the date of the colophon [at the end of the work] may be part of the author's personal signature to the confirmation of the copy and in conformity with the conclusion of an earlier revision...' (see, Kronholm, p. 162.).

References

Sefer ʿEmeq ha-bakha = The vale of tears / Joseph ha-Kohen ; with the chronicle of the anonymous Corrector ; introduction, critical edition, comments by Karin Almbladh (Uppsala, 1981), pp. 33-34.
ff. 52r-54v
Author: יוסף בן יהושע הכהן Joseph, ha-Kohen, 1496-1578
Title: שירים
Title: Shirim

F. 54v-52v (misbound and upside down, thus currently runs from left to right): שירים שחברתי אני יוסף הכהן.

F. 54v: שירים שחברתי אני יוסף הכהן בבחרותי בשנת ער"ז ל ר’ יהושע טודרוס ז"ל; f. 54r: שירים שלחתי לאיש ריבי [אחי טודרוס הכהן] על שהטיח דברים נגדי.

Autograph.

References

א’ דוד, אגרונו של יוסף הכהן בעל עמק הבכא, איטליה, ה .(תשמ"ה), עמ’ מד-מה
י’ דוידזון, מבוא לספר שעשועים בההדרתו, ברלין תרפ"ה, עמ’ פח-צ.
f. 55v
Author: יוסף בן יהושע הכהן Joseph, ha-Kohen, 1496-1578
Title: עמק הבכא
Title: ʿEmeḳ ha-baka

End of the composition; misbound, upside down.

Colophon: אמר יוסף ב"ר יהושע הכהן ז"ל אברך את ה’ יעצ[נ]י לחבר את החבור הקטן הזה ... כאשר השיגה ידי זער שם זער שם ותהי השלמתו ביום ראשון לחדש אלול ש"כ על האלף החמישי f. 55v

References

Sefer ʿEmeq ha-bakha = The vale of tears / Joseph ha-Kohen ; with the chronicle of the anonymous Corrector ; introduction, critical edition, comments by Karin Almbladh (Uppsala, 1981), pp. 33-34.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 55 folios (i+55+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 218 × 156 mm.
Dimensions (written): 165 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Misbound; ff. are bound upside down out of sequence; correct order of leaves: f. 50v, 55v, 55r

Collation

Indeterminable due to fragile condition.

Condition

Very bad, fragile condition. Leaves with holes and tears, loss of text.

Lower half of f. 11 is missing.

Water damage, usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Section headings are in larger characters.

Ruling is visible.

Maniculae e.g. on ff. 24v, 26v.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script of the 16th century.

Decoration

Simple ink drawing of a house in the lower margin on f. 38v.

Binding

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

History

Origin: 1559-1560

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscriptions by Samuel Treves: שמואל טריווש יצ"ו (f. 1r), 'Samuel Treves' (f. 52r, upside down).

A description of the manuscript, taken from a manuscript catalogue, no. 128 (Schwager-Frankel's catalogue?), is glued onto f. 1r.

M. Gaster's note about the transmission of the codex on f. 1r: קניתי את הכ"י מאת ש' חיים שקנה אותו מע... ... והוא קנה אותו מאת המנוח רבינווויץ שמצא אותו באיטליאה ומכר אותו בין כ"י שלו נו' 128 כאשר עינינו תחזונה מישרים למעלה כזה הדף - הצעיר משה גאסטיר ס"ט יום ... ה'ת'ר'נ'ח' 19.v.1898.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 245; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 15 February 1928.

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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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12348 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Joseph ha-Kohen, Sefer ʿEmeq ha-bakha = The vale of tears; with the chronicle of the anonymous Corrector; introduction, critical edition, comments by Karin Almbladh (Uppsala : [The University], 1981).
    Kronholm, Tryggve, 'Vale of Tears: Remarks on the new edition of Joseph hakkohen's Sefer ʿEmeq habbākā', Orientalia Suecana 30 (1981), pp. 149-171, esp. pp. 162-163.
    Joseph (ha-Kohen), ed. Pilar León Tello, El Valle del Llanto (Riopiedras Ediciones, 1989), p. pp. 27-28.

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