Manuscript/Mixed Material Collection of Kabbalah texts

Title

• Collection of Kabbalah texts

Created / Published

• 17-18th century.

Headings

• -  Manuscripts, Hebrew--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

• -  Maghrebic semi-cursive scripts.
• -  Description based on finding aid
• -  On many pages there are glosses by another hand signed אב"ץ (ff. 2r, 48r, 52r, 71r etc.) or אבצ"ן (ff. 19v, 49r, 53r, etc.). Glosses by the same author are found in several other mss of kabbalistic texts written in the Maghreb. Bound out of order. Ff. 26-37 are misbound at the end of the volume between ff. 236 and 237. F. 228 is bound between ff. 8 and 9.
• -  Owners: דוד ארזל ס"ט David Arzal (f. [i] verso); שאל הוא אתי מאת... יוסף ן' עטאייא...יעקב ן' מועטי Jacob ibn Mu'ati borrowed the book from Joseph ibn Attaya (f. 228v); נתגלגל ובא לידי בתורת מתנה מאת הר' יחייא בנו של... המהריב"ע an owner whose name is illegible received the book as a present from Yahya, son of מהריב"ע [probably Joseph ibn Attaya] (ibid.); Abraham b. Mordecai ha-Levi זה הספר נתגלגגל ובא לידי... בתורת מתנה, אברהם ן' מרדכי הלוי נ"ע ס"ט. MMW.
• -  Work 1: Ff.[ii] recto-214v, 236-247: קול ברמה Kol be-Ramah, one of the versions of the kabbalistic commentary on the Idra Rabba and Idra Zuta compiled by Jacob b. Hayyim Zemah. The author's introduction is a short version and includes only the first and last paragraphs of the autobiographical material published by G. Scholem in, Kiryat Sefer 26 (1930), pp. 185-194. Cf. R. Meroz, in Rivkah Shatz-Uffenheimer Memorial Volume (Jerusalem, 1996), (Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought, vol. 12), pp. 307-378, esp. p. 344.
• -  Work 2: Ff. 218r-228r: סדר כוונת פסח Kabbalistic intentions concerning Passover, mainly culled from the writings of Jacob Zemah and Hayyim Vital. On ff. 220v- 228r: נוסח הגדה זו נעתק מכתיבת יד הרב רבי חיים ויטאל.Kabbalistic commentary on the Passover Haggadah by Hayyim Vital with additions from the writings of Jacob Zemah.
• -  Work 3: Ff. 229r-231r: [פירוש עשר ספירות] Commentary on the Ten Sefirot, headed: זה מה שמצאתי כתוב בספר אחד בכתיבת יד. Begins: נשמת הנשמות א"ס סוד קמץ סוד השי"ן. Not listed in the bibliography of commentaries on the Sefirot by G. Scholem, in Kiryat Sefer 10 (1934), pp. 498-513.
• -  Work 4: Ff. 231r-234v: [פירוש עשר ספירות] Another commentary on the Sefirot headed: אתחיל לכתוב כללים בספירו' על הסדר בסייעתא דשמייא, beginning: הכתר הוא מקור הרחמים הגמורים לעולם. Scholem listed only one manuscript of this text (MS Gaster 720) in ibid., p. 504, no. 53.

Medium

• [ii], 248 ff. Paper. ; 21.1 x 13 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

• LC Hebr. Ms 3
• Micro Orien. Hebr. 880/3

Repository

• Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.amed/amedscd.2018757620

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2018757620

Online Format

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• https://lccn.loc.gov/2018757620

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