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Or 10536

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032-003467882
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Or 10536
Title:
ʿEts ḥayim by Ḥayyim Vital
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
118 folios (118+i)
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Languages:
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1667
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1667-1799
Era:
CE
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Poppers, Meir ben Judah Loeb, 1590-1662
Poppers, Meir ben Judah Loeb, 1590-1662
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
Ẓemaḥ, Jacob ben Ḥayyim, 1600-1699
Ẓemaḥ, Jacob ben Ḥayyim, 1600-1699
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Or 10536

ʿEts ḥayim by Ḥayyim Vital

Contents

Kabbalistic treatise.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-118r
Author: Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542 or 1543-1620 ויטל, חיים בן יוסף
Title: עץ חיים
Title: ʻEts ḥayim
Incipit: כלל כי אין יסוד הבינה נשלם רך בשליש יסוד הזעיר ונמצא כי אין

With introduction by Ḥayyim Vital. Mentions Meir ben Judah Loeb Poppers (see f. 6v), and Jacob ben Hayyim Ẓemah (ff. 5r, 6r), קול הרמז [Ḳol ha-Remez - Moses Zacuto], and others.

Mentions Jacob ben Ḥayyim Ẓemaḥ, who died in 1667 as deceased.

Diagrams e.g. on ff. 21r, 24v.

Corresponds to ff. 1-35 of the edition printed in Korzec 1784.

Incomplete at the beginning and at the end. Ff. 1-2, 110-111 and 118 are later additions, by different hands.

Colophon:
ff. 1r-17r
Title: שער הכללים
ff. 18r-28v
Title: שער א - שער בריאת העולמות
ff. 28v-31v
Title: שער ב - שער השתלשלות העולמות
ff. 31v-34r
Title: שער ג - שער סדר האצילות
ff. 34r-39r
Title: שער ד - שער אזן חוטם פה
ff. 39r-48r
Title: שער ה - שער טנת"א
ff. 48v-59v
Title: שער ו - שער העקודים
ff. 59v-65v
Title: שער ז - שער מטי ולא מטי
ff. 59v-75r
Title: שער ח - שער הנקודים
ff. 75v-84v
Title: שער ט - שער שבירת הכלים
ff. 85r-89r
Title: שער י - שער התיקון
ff. 89r-103v
Title: שער יא - שער המלכים
ff. 103v-110r
Title: שער יב - שער עתיק
ff. 110r-118r
Title: שער יג - שער אריך אנפין

Incomplete, up to the middle of chapter 7.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th-18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; unidentified watermark (bunch of grapes with crown on top and inscription 'BG ... AL ... Castres') (e.g. ff. 21, 24).
Extent: 118 folios (118+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 218 × 168 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink: ff. 3-17; restarts on f. 18.

F. 17r is blank.

Collation

Indeterminable.

Catchwords on every verso and on some recto sides.

Condition

Collation is falling apart, loose leaves, bifolios, damaged spine.

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Running title.

Most section headings are in square characters.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew semi-cursive script of the 17th-18th century.

Binding

Quarter-bound: cardboard covers and leather spine.Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '450 ס' עץ חיים המר...'.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1667-1799 17th-18th century (not before 1667)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 450; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 28 March 1928.

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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