University of Pennsylvania, Halper 439

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25990

Shelfmark:

Halper 439

Title:

ʹAsarah maʾamarot, V-VI

Mystical texts

Author:

Fano, Menahem Azariah da, 1548-1620

Menahem Azariah da Fano WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

17th century?

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

consecutive, complete; damaged, ink corrosion; [Halper: "fastened by a string"

Physical Description:

Extent: 35 fols. (Halper 439, 34; Halper 440, 1) : consecutive, complete; damaged, ink corrosion; [Halper: "fastened by a string"

Note:

Divided into fascicles of 10, 9, 6 and 10 fols (quires 5, 4.5, 3, 5 bifolia) ; Halper 440 is a loose folio from second quire, originally between fols. 10 and 11 of Halper 439 (now, respectively fols. 10, 11, 12; lacuna of original fol. 20, corresponding to left half of Halper 440?).
Incipits are in enlarged characters above a space. Paragraphs are enumerated in the margins.
On fol. 31 verso, only the first line of par. 5 is copied, the remainder of the page, as well as the following page (32) are blank. Fol. 32 verso resumes in the last line of par. 6. This area is missing in the published edition.
At the top of fol. 1 is the signature upon acquisition, אי״ש ג״ר אנכי בארץ, the ex libris of Abraham Graziano. In the upper right corner of the same page are the details of the acquisition, from the widow of Joseph Ḥaim Aggio Bondi, in Modena, Sunday Feb. 9, 1659.
Nine other manuscript codices were bought in the same acquisition (See: Y. Okun: Sifriyat kitve-ha-yad shel Avraham Yosef Shelomoh Gratsiyano (380 le-ʹerekh-445 / Yael Okuhn). Masters dissertation, Jerusalem, 1991, p. 110-111, 191). This may indicate that this codex, is complete, although it contains only Articles V and VI. Such is the case in ms. Mantova, Comunità Israelitica ebr. 111 as well.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Adler.
Graziano, Abraham Joseph Salomon.

Keyword:

Mysticism--Judaism

Early works

Cabala

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940421183503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3k931r18/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania