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Or 10626

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032-003472549
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Or 10626
Title:
Ḥayyim Vital's Otsrot ḥayim
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
178 folios (i+178)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10626 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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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 10626

Ḥayyim Vital's Otsrot ḥayim

Contents

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

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-176v
Author: Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542 or 1543-1620 ויטל, חיים בן יוסף
Title: אוצרות חיים
Title: Otsrot ḥayim

Begins: ספר אוצרות חיים דברי האלהי כמהר"ר חיים וחטאל זלה"ה שקבל מבוצינא קדישא האר"י זלה"ה פה אל פה שער אדם קדמון

Pasteboards of the front and back covers are coming apart revealing text: fragments from Ḥayyim Vital's Ets ḥayim; by two different hands, in more cursive scripts.

Colophon: נשלם כאן בעיר קושטאנדינה יע"ה אני הכותב ... משה מאנדיל ס"ט f. 176v

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; unidentified watermark (e.g. ff. 53-54).
Extent: 178 folios (i+178)
Dimensions (leaf): 216 × 159 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 115 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink.

Pasteboards of the front and back covers are coming apart; these leaves are called flyleaves in the digital surrogate.

Collation

19 quires: i10-1 (front flyleaf + ff. 1-8), ii-vii10 (ff. 9-18, 19-28, 29-38, 39-48, 49-58, 59-68), viii8 (ff. 69-76), ix-xvi10 (ff. 77-86, 87-96, 97-106, 107-116, 117-126, 127-136, 137-146, 147-156), xvii-xviii8 (157-164, 165-172), xix6-2 (ff. 173-176).

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Usage stains, water damage, worm damage.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Uniform layout.

Running title.

Section headings are in larger, square script.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew semi-cursive script of the 18th century. Copied by Mosheh Mandel.

Binding

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

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century Turkey (Istambul = Constantinople)

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchase note by Jacob ben Solomon ha-Kohen on f. 1r: מקנת כספי הצעיר יעקב בכ"ר שלמה הכהן.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 649; 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_10626 (digital images currently unavailable)

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