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Or 10606

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Or 10606
Title:
Peri 'ets ḥayim by Ḥayyim Vital
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
66 folios (iii+66)
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Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
Vital, Ḥayim ben Joseph, 1542-1620
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Or 10606

Peri 'ets ḥayim by Ḥayyim Vital

Contents

Kabbalistic compilation by Ḥayyim Vital based on the teachings of Isaac Luria.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-66r
Author: Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542 or 1543-1620 ויטל, חיים בן יוסף
Title: פרי עץ חיים (ענף רביעי, שער הנבואה ורוח הקדש)
Title: Peri 'ets ḥayim (ʿAnaf reviʿi, Shaʿar ha-Nevu'ah ṿe-Ruaḥ ha-Ḳodesh)
Incipit: שער הנבואה ורוח הקדש
Explicit: תושלבע

Hayyim Vital’s original version can be reconstructed based upon the manuscript.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: tetrapod with hooves (e.g. ff. 45-46).
Extent: 66 folios (iii+66)
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 157 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 105 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink by the scribe (duplicated f. 13).

Collation

9 quires: i6-1 (ff. 1-5), ii6 (ff. 6-11), iii8 (ff. 12-19), iv6 (ff. 20-25), v-vi8 (ff. 26-33, 34-41), vii6 (ff. 43-48), viii10? (ff. 49-58), ix8 (59-66).

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage, worm damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 34

Uniform layout.

Section headings are in larger, square script.

Hand(s)

North African/Sefardi Hebrew cursive and square script of the 18th century.

Binding

Leather binding. Blind-tooled. Only front cover survived; spine and back cover are missing. Boxed.

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 651; 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_10606 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    ר’ מרוז, גאולה בתורת האר"י, עמ’ 42.

Funding of Cataloguing

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