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Or 10633

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Shaʿare raḥamim by Ḥayyim ha-Kohen
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238 folios (no flyleaves)
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1797
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1798
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Barazani, Samuel ben Nethanel, ha-Levi, c 1560-1630
Barazani, Samuel ben Nethanel, ha-Levi, c 1560-1630
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
ha-Kohen, Ḥayyim ben Abraham, c 1585-1655
ha-Kohen, Ḥayyim ben Abraham, c 1585-1655
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Or 10633

Shaʿare raḥamim by Ḥayyim ha-Kohen

Contents

Kabbalistic prayer book compiled from the works of Ḥayyim ha-Kohen by Solomon Abadi.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1v-238r
Author: חיים בן אברהם, הכהן, מארם צובה Ḥayyim ben Abraham, ha-Kohen, approximately 1585-1655
Title: שערי רחמים
Title: Shaʿare raḥamim

Title page on f. 7r: ספר שערי רחמים חכו ממתקים אשר לו היה לעולמים כאשר עיניכם תחזינה משרים והוא מלוקט מכתבי הרב האלהי חיים הכהן אשר לקט מכתבי הקודש האלהי האר"יאל ז"ל ...אשר לקט מקודשי שמים ה"ה ... כמה"ר שלמה עבאדי נר"ו ... הביאו לבית הדפוס לזכות בו את הרבי' זכות הרבים תלוי בו יהי רצון ...והוגה ע"י ... כמוה"ר בנימין קמחי נר"ו ... נדפס בשאלוניקי יע"א אשר תחת ממשלת אדונינו המלך שולטן מחמד יה"ה בשנת דע' את' אלהי' א'ביך' ועובדיהו לפ"ק .

Copied from the printed edition, Salonika 5501 AM (1740/1 CE), until the end of the Shaḥarit prayer (f. 85r), from there onwards compilations from the book with numerous supplements by the copyist.

Among others additions to the Song of Songs in Hebrew translation of the Aramaic translation (cf. marginal note on f. 151r) (ff. 151r-165v), which begins with שיר ושבח אשר אמר שלמה המלך ברוח הקודש לפני אדון כל העולם ה; and the scroll of Ruth with a Hebrew translation of the Aramaic translation (ff. 199r-203r) which begins with י’ רעבון חזקים הם אשר גזרו מן שמייא על העולם; a calendar of the year 5558 AM (1797/8 CE) (ff. 211r-217r); Birkat ha-mohel for circumcision (f. 226v); liturgical poem for the festival of Shavuʿot by Samuel ben Nethanel Barazani (f. 229r).

Includes piyutim by Yehoshua ben Mordekhai (f. 217v etc.), who might be the copyist Yehoshua ben Mordekhai Mizraḥi, and by Ḥizḳiah ben Azariah (f. 225v etc.).

Added to the beginning of the manuscript: medical recipes (f. 1r: לכאב הראש יש עשב שמו שפלא...), lots of divinations in the margins (e.g. f. 2r), and a responsa (questions and ten answers beginning: אתחיל לכתוב גורלות של רבינו הקדוש ז"ל) (ff. 1v-3v).

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F. 3v: a drawing explaining the laws regarding buying and selling siman 217 and siman 6 in Shulhan Arukh Hoshen Mishpat.

Ff. 4r-6r: piyutim for Simhat Torah according to the rite of Aleppo.

F. 6v: novellae on chapter six of Tractate Avot.

At the end: homiletic commentaries (f. 232); additional piyutim among which"to our teacher […] the sage Mordechai ben Nisan" (f. 234v).

Ff. 236v-237r: Sefer ha-Goralot by Yehudah ben Eliʿezer. The introduction reads: גורלות אלו המה בנויים ומסודרים על דרך ה חומשי תורה וסימניהם; סגולות בדוקים (f. 237v); blessings (f. 238r).

Colophon: תושלבע נשלם אזהרות שבח לאל בורא נשמות טהורות הצעיר וזעיר יהושע בכה"ר מרדכי מזרחי f. 210v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the late 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Various types of paper with laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 238 folios (no flyleaves)
Dimensions (leaf): 211 × 155 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

F. 211v is blank.

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves. Quire i8-2 (ff. 1-6), ii10-1 (ff. 7-15), iii-iv10 (ff. 16-25, 26-35), v-ix8 (ff. 36-43, 44-51, 52-59, 60-67, 68-75), xtwo (ff. 76-77), xi4 (ff. 78-81), xii-xviii8 (ff. 82-89, 90-97, 98-105, 106-113, 114-121, 122-129, 130-137), xixthree (ff. 138-140), xx2 (ff. 141-142), xxithree (ff. 143-145), xxii-xxiii8 (ff. 146-153, 154-161), xxiv4 (ff. 162-165), xxv8 (ff. 166-173), xxvi8-1 (ff. 174-180), xxvii10 (ff. 181-190), xxviii-xxx8 (ff. 191-198, 199-206, 207-214), xxxithree (ff. 215-217), xxxiii6.The end of the collation is indereminable.

Catchword on most pages.

Condition

Collation is falling apart, loose bifolios.

Usage stains, water damage, burnt damage.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruling in hard point is visible.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew semi-cursive and square scripts of the 18th century; several hands; partially vocalised.

Decoration

With a title page and decorated openings and endings (e.g. ff. 3v, 7r, 11r, 142v, 159v, 199r, 201v, 203r, 206v, 210v, 211r).

Additions:

Ff. 231r-231v: a ketubah template from Safed 5550 AM (1789/90 CE): ... וכך ימים לחודש פ' שנת חמשת אלפים וחמש מאות וחמשים וכו' לבריאת עולם....

Binding

Leather binding, with remains of a pair of toggles and loops. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: 'ס' שערי רחמים (...) 70'.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1797-1798

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscription by Efraim ben Jeshua on front pastedown: אני הצעיר אפרים בן חכם יהושוע; by Solomon Isaac Sofer on f. 4r: הצעיר שלמה יצחק סופר יצ"ו; by Efraim ben Jesuah Mizraḥi and his brother Ḥ. Nisim on f. 165v: הצעיר אפרים בכה"ר יהושע ס"ט מזרחי וצעיר ח’ ניסים אחיו ... ס"ט.

F. 7r: lists, dated 5558.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 70; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 22 July 1927.

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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