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Or 10691

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Or 10691
Title:
Kabbalistic miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
113 folios (113+v)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Luria, Isaac ben Solomon, 1534-1572
Luria, Isaac ben Solomon, 1534-1572
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Or 10691

Kabbalistic miscellany

Contents

A collection of kabbalistic notes, novellae, a poem, and homiletic commentaries.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-113r
Title: לקוטים
Title: Liḳuṭim
Incipit: פרשת ויחי ...

Among the included: Zohar novellae on Parashat va-Yehi (ff. 1r-44r), alphabetically arranged novellae (ff. 45r-58r, 64r-77v), an interpretation of Isaac Luria’s (ha-Ari’s) poem Azamer bi-Shevahin (ff. 59r-63r), novellae on Numbers and Exodus (ff. 78r-101r) and homiletic commentaries (ff. 101v-113v).

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Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid and chain lines; watermarks: three stars in a crowned shield with the letters 'G C' underneath (e.g. ff. 96, 97, blank leaves after f. 101), 'Gior Magnani', 'Al Masso' countermark, etc. Gior Magnani is a still existing Italian paper mill.
Extent: 113 folios (113+v)
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 158 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Several blank pages, and unfoliated blank leaves within the collation.

Collation

Catchword/catchphrase in every page.

Condition

Usage stains, rodent damage.

Last back flyleaf is detached.

Layout

Columns:1

No ruling; slightly sloping lines.

Hand(s)

Oriental/Sefardi Hebrew semi-cursive script of the 18th century.

Binding

Half-bound, with leather spine and corners and printed paper covers. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: 'דרושים וחידושים 637'.

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 637; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 9 September 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).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10691 (digital images currently unavailable)

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