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Title

A collection of kabbalistic texts.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Harley MS 5532
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5532
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

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

Origin

Summary

A collection of kabbalistic texts.

Notes

• Stained.
   

Extent

29 folios (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 13 at the end). Part I: Folios 1-24. Part II: Folios 25-29.;

Support

Paper

Binding

BM/BL in-house. Spine: 'Kabbalistic Notes. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Harl. 5532.'

Layout

Part I: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 15-25; written lines: 15-25; Non-uniform layout. Numerous marginal notes. Part II: 1 column(s); ruled lines: 24; written lines: 24; Non-uniform layout.

Script

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

Provenance

• Acquisition: The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts; inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley, '20 die Februarij, A.D. 1719/20' (folio 2r). Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d.1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
   

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 — Ḳovets liḳuṭim קבץ לקוטים
• fol. 25r — ῾Inyanim nifla᾿im be-Zohar ענינים נפלאים בזהר