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Or 10384
Title:
Kabbalistic miscellany
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Oriental Manuscripts
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186 folios (186+i)
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Start Date:
1673
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1675
Date Range:
1673-1675
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, kabbalist and scholar, 1248-1325
Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, kabbalist and scholar, 1248-1325
Karo, Joseph ben Ephraim, 1488-1575,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000117738376,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/88686046
Karo, Joseph ben Ephraim, 1488-1575,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000117738376,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/88686046
Luria, Isaac ben Solomon, 1534-1572
Luria, Isaac ben Solomon, 1534-1572
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
Yehudah ben Noaḥ ben Daniʾel
Yehudah ibn Noaḥ ben Daniʾel
יהודה בן נח בן דניאל
Ẓemaḥ, Jacob ben Ḥayyim, 1600-1699
Ẓemaḥ, Jacob ben Ḥayyim, 1600-1699
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Or 10384

Kabbalistic miscellany

Contents

A collection of works on kabbalah.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-73v
Author: Luria, Isaac ben Solomon, 1534-1572 לוריא, יצחק (האר"י)
Title: שלחן ערוך על דרך האמת
Title: Shulḥan ʿarukh ʿal derekh ha-ʾemet

A digest of kabbalistic practices following the order the the Shulḥan ʿarukh by Joseph Karo. Compiled by Ḥayim Vital from the oral lectures of Isaac Luria.

Incomplete at the end.

Colophon:
ff. 74r-81v
Title: סוד הסליחות
Title: Sod ha-Seliḥot

Kabbalistic interpretations of the seliḥot. Probably composed by Ḥayim Vital.

Copied by Yehudah ibn Noaḥ ben Daniʾel: f. 81r: הכותב ... זעיר דחבריא יהודה ן' ... נח בן כר דניאל שנת שמלתך לא בלת"ה מעליך ; f. 81v: יהוגה ן' נח.

Colophon:
ff. 82r-83v
Title: ספר יצירה
Title: Sefer Yetsirah

Chapters 1-3, and the beginning of 4.

Incomplete at the end.

Colophon:
ff. 84r-84v
Title: כללי הדקדוק
Title: Kelale ha-diḳduḳ

Colophon:
ff. 85r-94r
Author: יהודה בן נח בן דניאל Yehudah ben Noaḥ ben Daniʾel
Title: ערוגת הבושם
Title: ʿArugat ha-bośem

A series of kabbalistic homilies on the parashiyot of the Pentateuch.

F. 85r: title page in frame: יהודה ן' החכם ... נח בכמה"ר דניאל נ"ע.

Incomplete at the end; continuation or another version of 'Arugat ha-bośem with title page and another introduction from f. 167r onwards.

Colophon:
ff. 94v-97r
Title: לקוטים
Title: Liḳuṭim

Colophon:
ff. 98r-107v
Author: Luria, Isaac ben Solomon, 1534-1572 לוריא, יצחק (האר"י)
Title: פרוש התורה
Title: Perush ha-Torah

Attributed to Isaac Luria.

From Parashat Bereshit to ṿa-Yetse.

Colophon:
ff. 108r-108v
Title: כונת התפלה בקצור
Title: Kaṿanat ha-Tefilah be-ḳitsur

Kabbalistic interpretations of the liturgy.

Colophon:
ff. 109r-110v
Author: ג’יקטיליה, יוסף בן אברהם Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham, 1248-
Title: קצור ראשי פרקים מספר האורה
Title: Ḳitsur roshe peraḳim me-Sefer ha-ʾorah

A summary of the Shaʿare orah of Joseph Gikatilla.

F. 109r: אתחיל לכתוב קיצור ראשי פרקים מס’ האורה להר’ יוסף גיקאטלייא ז"ל.

Colophon:
ff. 112r-113v
Title: הקדמה בזוהר
Title: Haḳdamah ba-Zohar

F. 112r: הקדמה בזוהר האזינו דף רצ"ז....

F. 113r: קבלתי מהרי"ב בכמה"ר אליעזר הדרשן

Colophon:
ff. 114r-159r
Author: Ẓemaḥ, Jacob ben Ḥayyim active 17th century צמח, יעקב בן חיים
Title: כונות התפלה
Title: Kaṿanat ha-Tefilah

Kabbalistic interpretations of the liturgy.

Title on f. 114r: כונות התפילה בקיצור מופלג.

Colophon: זכיתי והעתקתי כונת התפילה מספר הרח"ו זלה"ה בעיר מצרים שנת ה’תל"ד ... אני הצעיר יהודה בן ... נח ... בן כה"ר דניאל ... והרי אני המעתיק פי’ ספר ערכי הכנויים של הרב זלה"ה f. 159r
ff. 159v-166v
Author: Luria, Isaac ben Solomon, 1534-1572 לוריא, יצחק (האר"י)
Title: באור ערכי הכנויים
Title: Beʾur ʿarhke ha-kinuyim

An alphabetical register of kabbalistic terms. Incomplete.

Title on f. 159v: ביאור ערכי הכנויים מהרי"א ז"ל על אלפא ביתא.

F. 164v: תם הצעיר יהודה ן' נח.

Colophon:
ff. 167r-174r
Author: יהודה בן נח בן דניאל Yehudah ben Noaḥ ben Daniʾel
Title: ערוגת הבושם
Title: ʻArugat ha-bośem

Title in frame on f. 167r: דרושים על התורה ... וקראתי שמו ערוגת הבשם ... יהודה בן ... נח נ"ע בן כמה"ר דניאל נר"ו... שנת העיר על תל"ה.

Colophon:
ff. 175r-176r
Title: זהר (תקונים)
Title: Zohar (Tiḳunim)

Colophon:
ff. 177r-182v
Title: דרושים, נוסח מצבה ושירים
Title: Derushim, nusaḥ matsevah ṿe-shirim

Colophon:
f. 183r
Title: שעור קומה
Title: Shiʿur ḳomah

Title on f. 183r: שיעור הקומה שראה ר' ישמעאל ן' אלישע זלה"ה כהן גדול כשעלה למרום.

Colophon:
ff. 185v-186r
Title: כונות ותקונים
Title: Kaṿanot ṿe-tiḳunim

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 186 folios (186+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 154 × 102 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Earlier Hebrew foliation in ink on ff. 74-81 (= ff. א-ח), and ff. 98-107 (= ff. א-י) and ff. 109-110 (= ff. א-ב)ץ

Ff. 111r, 174v, 176v, 177v, 179r, 185r are blank.

Collation

Catchword on almost every page.

Condition

Water damage, mould, usage stains, worm damage.

Collation is falling apart.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew semi-cursive and square scripts of the 17th century. Most of it was copied by Yehudah ibn Noaḥ ben Daniʾel.

Decoration

Additions:

Ff. 95v and 111v: segulot.

F. 184 is a smaller paper slip inserted into the collation.

Binding

Brown leather binding. Boxed.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1673-1675

Provenance and Acquisition

Fragment of an ownership note on f. 1r: ... מתנה ... הצעיר נתן נחץ

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 238; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 15 February 1927.

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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