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Or 10546
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- Or 10546
- Title:
- Idra raba with ʾOr yaḳar by Moses Cordovero, and two other works.
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 121 folios (i+121+ii)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic - Scripts:
- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 1600-1799
- Era:
- CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Or 10546
Idra raba with ʾOr yaḳar by Moses Cordovero, and two other works.
Contents
A collection of kabbalistic texts.
Language(s): Hebrew, Jewish Babalonia Aramaic
ff. 2r-5vTitle: ספר הדרושיםTitle: Sefer ha-derushim (excerpts)Three derushim.
Colophon:ff. 6r-9vTitle: ברית המנוחהTitle: Berit ha-menuḥah (excerpts)Passages from a treatise on the mystical significance of the vowels.
Incomplete at the end.
Colophon:ff. 10r-121vTitle: אור יקרTitle: ʾOr yaḳarIdra Raba with the commentary of Moses Cordovero.
Cordovero's commentary corresponds to Add MS 27059, ff. 32v-130r.
Incomplete at the end.
Colophon:Physical Description
Paper codex of the 17th-18th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; unidentified watermark.Extent: 121 folios (i+121+ii)Dimensions (leaf): 208 × 151 mm.Dimensions (written): 175 × 110/115 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.
Ff. 1v and 5v are blank.
Collation
11 quires: i2 (front flyleaf + f. 1), ii-iii4 (ff. 2-5, 6-9), iv12-1 (ff. 10-20), v12 (ff. 21-32), vi20-2 (ff. 33-50), vii14 (ff. 51-64), viii12+1 (ff. 65-77), ix10 (ff. 78-87), x14 (ff. 88-101), xi10 (ff. 102-121).
Catchword at the end of every column (ff. 10-121).
Ff. 6-9 is bound incorrectly. Correct order of leaves: ff. 8, 9, 6, 7 (cf. catchwords).
Condition
Water damage, usage stains, worm damage.
Collation is falling apart, several leaves are loose, binding is damaged.
Layout
Columns:1 2
Ff. 10-121: in two columns; main text is in the middle in larger characters, commentary is around main text in two columns.
Hand(s)
Oriental/Sefardi Hebrew semi-cursive scripts of the 17th-18th century.
Ff. 6-121: written Sefardi/Levantine semi-cursive script in brown ink.
Ff. 2-5: written in a different Oriental hand (larger, more rounded characters), in black ink.
Binding
Brown leather binding, blind-tooled. Boxed.
M. Gaster's label on spine: '666 קבלה ... '.
History
Origin: 1600-1799 17th-18th centuryProvenance and Acquisition
Ownership inscriptions by Shalom Atsban(?) on f. 1r: לי למקנה ונחלה קנית אתו לעבודת בוראי ועל זה אמרו רז"ל לעולם יחתום אדם שמו שמא יבא אחד מן השוק ויקח את ... על כן הכורחתי לכתוב שמי בספרי הצעיר וזעיר מכל בני העיר עבד ... לבעלי התורה ולמדיו ... ; לי למקנה ונחלה קנית אתו לעבודה בוראי לעסוק בו אכי"ר הצעיר שלום אצבאן נר"ו.
Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 666; 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).Availability
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