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Or 10870

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Or 10870
Title:
Kabbalistic miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
169 folios (i+169+i)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1564
End Date:
1564
Date Range:
1564
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Hebrew
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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
Yosef ben Moshe Alashqar
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Or 10870

Kabbalistic miscellany

Contents

A collection of kabbalistic works.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 2r-169v
Title: יד יוסף
Title: Yad Yosef

Includes leaves from various manuscripts, among others Yad Yosef by Yosef ben Moshe Alashqar (f. 2), Torah Mosheh (kabbalistic commentaries on the Bible), ḥidushim, Ohev shalom, kabbalistic commentaries on prayers, Tsofnat Paʿaneaḥ by Yosef ben Moshe Alashqar, poems, etc.

F. 59r: ספר צפנת פעניח חברו החכם השלם ... יוסף בן אל שקר בן החכם השלם כמה"ר משה .

Ff. 115r-151v: commentary on the Mishnah? F. 117r: המסכתא הרביעית מסדר מועד נקראת מסכת שקלים והנני מקשר אלו השלשה מסכתות זו אחר זו שהם שקלים ויומא וסוכה...; f. 128r: המסכתא העשירית מסדר מועד נקראת מגלה; f. 130r: המסכתא האחת עשר מסדר מועד נקרא' מעוד קטן; f. 137r: בתים כפתוחי חותם מתוקנות הנם לסדר המועד מסענות; f. 138r: אתחיל לכתוב סדר נשים; f. 151v: זה השיר אשר עשה המחבר י'ב'ץ' לסדר נשים.

Colophon: והנה נשלם סדר נשים לח... והכותב ... שמואל בוניאל גמר כתיבתו יום ד' חמשה ימים לשבט שנת השכ"ד ... ולכל בני ישראל f. 151v

Physical Description

Composite paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Various sorts of paper.
Extent: 169 folios (i+169+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 208 × 145 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Indeterminable due to fragile state of the item.

Condition

Very fragile, brittle leaves.

Water damage, iron gall ink corrosion, worm damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Not uniform layout; given dimensions are those of the flyleaves.

Corrections, deletions.

Few marginal notes.

Layout is not uniform, but section headings are usually in larger, square script.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew cursve and square scripts of the 16th century; by various hands.

Binding

Post-1600, black cloth binding. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '1021 צפנת פענח'.

History

Origin: 1564

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1021; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 30 May 1930.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel.

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