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MS. Canonici Or. 25

Oriental Manuscripts Canonici Oriental Collection

Contents

ʾOr ha-śekhel

ff. 1r-112v
Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, 1240-approximately 1292אבולעפיה, אברהם בן שמואל, ʾOr ha-śekhel אור השכל

Abulafia's kabbalistical treatise on the Tetragrammaton divided into ten parts.

Colophon: On fol. 112v: הכותב הצעיר אד"ם
Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper (watermarks: Briquet no. 12250, dated 1566-1571)
Extent: ff. 113
Dimensions (leaf): 177 × 119 mm.
Foliation: Foliation in Arabic numerals.

Collation

14 quires: i 8,ii 6, iii-xiii 8, xiv 12-1 signatures in Arabic characters (except quire 10, which is marked in Latin numeral. catchwords at the lower margin of every verso.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script.

Decoration

Diagram on fol. 99r

Binding

Light brown leather binding, blind-tooled.

History

Origin: [Italy]; [ca. 1575]

Provenance and Acquisition

Matteo Luigi Canonici's (1727-1805) collections passed to his brother Giuseppe, and on his death in 1807 to Giovanni Perissinotti and Girolamo Cardina, who divided them. To the former fell the MSS., then about 3550 in number, and, after many attempts to sell them, the Bodleian became the purchaser of the greater part in 1817, for £5444 5s. 1d., or including incidental expenses about £6030, the largest single purchase ever made by the Library. The formal list of volumes handed over was signed on May 18, 1817, and the books probably arrived later that year.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. I, by Adolf Neubauer, Oxford 1886, No. 1579, Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I, No. 1579, and on the data of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, National Library of Israel with additional enhancements by the cataloguer.

Availability

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures contact Bodleian Admissions). Contact specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk for further information on the availability of this manuscript.

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Microfilm

MSS R.R. Film No. F 16947

Bibliography

    Neubauer, Adolf, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1886), no. 1579.
    Beit-Arié, Malachi and R.A. May (eds), Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol. I (A. Neubauer’s Catalogue) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), no. 1579.

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