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Title

Two kabbalistic works bound in one volume.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 27002
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27002
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Italy?

Summary

Two kabbalistic works bound in one volume.

Notes

• Imperfect at the beginning and at the end.
   
• Lacuna between folios 87 and 88.
   
• Stained.
   
• Imperfect at the end.
   
• Stained.
   

Extent

Part I: Folios 2-117. Part II: Folios 118-180.;

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'En Shemesh and Sepher Hai-Yichud. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,002.'

Layout

Part I: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 28-36; written lines: 28-36; Uniform layout. Catchwords on every verso. Some extensive notes in the margins, see e.g., foliosIrregular fol 48r-55v. Part II: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 28; written lines: 28; Uniform layout. Initial words in square characters. Catchwords on every verso.

Script

Part I: Sefardi semi-cursive script of the 15th to 16th century.Part II: Italian semi-cursive of the 16th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 113: his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin dealer to the British Museum (see 131-153): inscribed, folio [182v] (fse002v).
   

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. 2r — Sefer ha-meshiv : sodot ῾al ha-Torah ספר המשיב : סודות על התורה
• fol. 118r — Sefer ha-temunah ספר התמונה