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Or 10608
Title:
Sefer ha-kaṿanot by Ḥayyim Vital
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
100 folios (100+iv)
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Start Date:
1600
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1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
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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
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
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Or 10608

Sefer ha-kaṿanot by Ḥayyim Vital

Contents

Kabbalisitc exegesis on the liturgy.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 3r-99v
Author: Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542 or 1543-1620 ויטל, חיים בן יוסף
Title: ספר הכונות
Title: Sefer ha-kaṿanot
Incipit: קודם שיתפלל האדם בשחרית צריך לקבל עליו מצות עשה של ואהבת לרעך כמוך f. 4r

Based on the teachings of Isaac Luria.

F. 3v: הקדמה ממורה"ח ויטל. Foliation on f. 3 (folio קלג) suggests that this leaf had belonged to another manuscript. An introduction by Ḥayyim Vital, disscussing how to read Isaac Luria's writings.

Edited by Binyamin ha-Levi and Elisha Guastalla. On this edition see Y. Avivi, Ḳabalat ha-Ari, part i, section 51.

Incomplete at the beginning and end.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermarks: a crown with a star and a crescent on top (e.g. ff. 80-81, 96-97), slightly similar to Heawood, Watermarks: mainly of the 17th and 18th centuries (Hilversum: Paper Publications Society, 1950) no. 1131;
Extent: 100 folios (100+iv)
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 148 mm.
Dimensions (written): 165 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink; f. 4 = f. ב.

F. 93v is blank.

Collation

14 quires: i8-1 (ff. 1, 2, + blank leaves), ii9+1 (ff. 3-12), iii-vi10 (ff. 13-22, 23-32, 33-42, 43-52), vii-viii6 (ff. 53-58, 59-64), ixfour (ff. 65-68), x-xii8 (ff. 69-76, 77-84, 85-92), xiii8-1 (93-99), xiv8-2 (blank leaves + f. 100). Last leaf of quie xiv has been used as pastedown.

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Water damage, worm damage, usage stains.

Spine is damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Uniform layout.

F. 64 has half the width of the rest of the leaves.

Hand(s)

Sefardi (Levantine) semi-cursive script of the 17th century.

Additions: Ff. 1v, 2r and 3r: notes by various hands.

Binding

Brown leather binding; blind-tooled. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: 'ס' הכונות 646'.

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscription on f. 3r: דוד שילומו שוחאמי[?].

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 646; 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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