University of Pennsylvania, Halper 436

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS26017

Shelfmark:

Halper 436

Title:

Sefer hekhalot

Book of Enoch

Place:

Europe

Europe TGN

Date:

14th century-15th century?

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

consecutive, complete

Physical Description:

Extent: 39 fols. (loose leaves; Halper: originally fastened together by a string): consecutive, complete

Note:

Incipits in enlarged square characters, above a space; angels' names denoted by a superior bar.
This collection from the Hekhalot literature contains: Hekhalot rabbati: Fols. 1-5, in the edition pars. 81-121; fols. 5-8, ibid. pars. 156-173; fols. 8-20 verso, ibid. pars. 189-306.
Ḥotam gadol / Keter nora: fol. 20 verso ll. 2-20, ibid pars. 318-321.
Hekhalot zutra: fols 20-26 l. 4, ibid. pars. 335-338,348-368, 373-374, 407-426.
Fols. 26 l. 4-fol. 28, ibid 489-499.
Maʻaseh merkavah: fols. 28 verso l. 11-fol. 36, ibid. pars. 544-596.
Oath of Sar ha-panim: fols. 36 l. 13-fol. 38 verso, ibid. pars. 623-639.
Ḥotam gadol / Keter nora: fol. 38 verso l. 6-fol. 39, ibid. pars. 651-654.
Merkavah rabbah: fol. 39. l. 5-end, ibid. pars. 655-657
The owner's signature is found at the top of fol. 1 אי״ש ג״ר, and again at the top of fol. 38 verso אי״ש גר אנכי בארץ, that is, Abraham Graziano. See Y. Okun: Sifriyat kitve-ha-yad shel Avraham Yosef Shelomoh Gratsiyano (380 le-ʹerekh-445 / Yael Okuhn. Masters dissertation, Jerusalem, 1991 p. 190).
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Adler.
Graziano, Abraham Joseph Salomon.

Keyword:

Early works

Cabala

Mysticism--Judaism

Jewish mythology

Merkava

Hekhalot literature

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940421153503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3tt4gb9v/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania