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Title

Sefer hekhalot

Other related names

• Graziano, Abraham Joseph Salomon, ca. 1620, ca. 1683, former owner

Call number

Halper 436
(Philadelphia, United States, University of Pennsylvania, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Cairo Genizah Collection)

Publisher

Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Europe

Notes

• Incipits in enlarged square characters, above a space; Angels' names denoted by a superior bar; This collection from the Hekhalot literature contains: Hekhalot rabbati: Fols. 1-5, in the edition pars. 81-121; fols. 5-8, ibid. pars. 156-173; fols. 8-20 verso, ibid. pars. 189-306; Ḥotam gadol / Keter nora: fol. 20 verso ll. 2-20, ibid pars. 318-321; Hekhalot zutra: fols 20-26 l. 4, ibid. pars. 335-338,348-368, 373-374, 407-426; Fols. 26 l. 4-fol. 28, ibid 489-499; Ma'aseh merkavah: fols. 28 verso l. 11-fol. 36, ibid. pars. 544-596; Oath of Sar ha-panim: fols. 36 l. 13-fol. 38 verso, ibid. pars. 623-639; Ḥotam gadol / Keter nora: fol. 38 verso l. 6-fol. 39, ibid. pars. 651-654; Merkavah rabbah: fol. 39. l. 5-end, ibid. pars. 655-657;The owner's signature is found at the top of fol. 1 אי״ש ג״ר, and again at the top of fol. 38 verso אי״ש גר אנכי בארץ, that is, Abraham Graziano. See Y. Okun: Sifriyat kitve-ha-yad shel Avraham Yosef Shelomoh Gratsiyano (380 le-ʹerekh-445 / Yael Okuhn. Masters dissertation, Jerusalem, 1991 p. 190.
   
• Condition: consecutive, complete.
   

Extent

21.2 X 15.3 cm

Support

Paper

Layout

Columns: 1; lines: 22.

Decoration

Black ink

Script

Hebrew Sephardic semi-cursive square

Provenance

• Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
   
• Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
   
• Amram.
   

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• [Sefer hekhalot]

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