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Title

Mafteaḥ Shelomoh (מפתח שלמה)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 6360
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_6360
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

A collection of astrological, kabbalistic and magical fragments.

Notes

• Water damage, all repaired/infilled before rebinding.
   
• Tidemark at head throughout.
   
• Ink burn-through, also flaked off in some heavily inked areas.
   
• A series of diagrams, folio 15v.
   

Extent

15 folios; 15 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Sepher Hal-Lebanah. Hebr. Brit. Mus. Oriental 6360.'

Layout

Columns: 1 ; ruled lines: 23 35; written lines: 23 35; Uniform layout. Vertical plummet ruling visible. Initial words and section titles in larger square characters. Catchwords on every verso. Graphic fillers at the end of the line. Marginal notes.

Script

Oriental semi-cursive and square script of the 17th to 18th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Raffalovich & Lifkin: purchased by the British Museum on 15 April 1902: inscribed, folio [20v].
   

Related resources

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Sefer ha-levanah ספר הלבנה
• fol. 7r — Sefer ma῾alot ha-mazalot ספר מעלות המזלות
• fol. 12r — Sefer Mafteaḥ Shelomoh ספר מפתח שלמה