Collection ID: 0047 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Sefer ha-zohar (ספר הזוהר)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 17745
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_17745
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

Sefer ha-zohar on the book of Genesis.

Notes

• Eliyahu Anav: inscribed with his name, undated (folio 1r).
   
• Laurentius Franguellus (fl. until 1596): inscribed with his name, 1575 (folio 182v); see 78, appendix § 105-110.
   
• Hippolite of Ferrara, Franciscan (active 1590-1609, in Cremona?): inscribed with his name, 1601 (folio 182v), see 18-19, 93.
   
• Giovanni Domenico Vistorini: inscribed 'Gio. Dom. Vistorini 1609' (folio 182v), see 85-87.
   

Extent

183 folios; 183 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post-1600. Black leather. Spine: 'Liber Zohar. Comment. In Genesin. Hebr. Brit. Mus. Add. Or. 17,745.'

Layout

Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 35 36; written lines: 35 36; Uniform layout. Initial words in larger square characters. Visible pricking and hard-point ruling. Hair side and flesh side of the folios distinguishable. Marginal notes, e.g., folio 77v, 161v. Omissions indicated in the margin, e.g., folio 182r, 182v.

Script

Italian semi-cursive script of the 15th century. Shelomoh (?): marked off, folio 181r.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Acquired by the British Museum in 1848.
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — ספר הזוהר
• fol. 1r — Sefer ha-zohar