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Title

A collection of kabbalistic texts, consisting of two originally distinct manuscripts.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 27009
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27009
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (ca. 200-1200 CE)

Origin

Place

Italy Part I: Italy Part II: Italy?

Summary

A collection of kabbalistic texts, consisting of two originally distinct manuscripts.

Notes

• Stained.
   
• Water-damaged.
   
• First leaf injured.
   
• Heavily water-damaged.
   
• Folio 106r (a vellum end flyleaf): a note in Italian semi-cursive script of the 15th century, headed 'de῾ot ha-filosofim').
   

Extent

Part I: Folios 1-59. Part II: Folios 60-105;

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Perush Hat-Tephilloth. Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,009.'

Layout

Part I: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 24; written lines: 24; Uniform layout. Instead of catchwords, catch-letters are used, the first letter of the first word of a folio being written at the end of the preceding page. Many corrections and variant readings have been supplied in the margin. Part II: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 24; written lines: 24; Uniform layuot. Initial words written in square characters. Catchwords from folio to folio, those at the end of quires being distinguished by an accompanying small pen and ink design. Additional notes and comments supplied in the margin.

Script

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

Provenance

• Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile his manuscript no. 119; his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum through Asher & Co. in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin dealer to the British Museum (see 131-153); inscribed, folio [107v].
   

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 — Perush ha-tefilot פרוש התפלות
• fol. 60r — Zohar ḥadash (midrash Rut) זהר חדש (מדרש רות)