[Sefer ha-Zohar ʿal ha-Torah (parashat Noaḥ–Ḥaye Śarah) : ʿim perush Or yaḳar / me-et Mosheh Ḳordoṿero]. [ספר הזהר על התורה (פרשת נח-חיי שרה) : עם פירוש אור יקר / מאת משה קורדואירו]. [Zohar with Moses Cordovero's commentary, Genesis 6–25].
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Type of record: Archive
Title: [Sefer ha-Zohar ʿal ha-Torah (parashat Noaḥ–Ḥaye Śarah) : ʿim perush Or yaḳar / me-et Mosheh Ḳordoṿero]. [ספר הזהר על התורה (פרשת נח-חיי שרה) : עם פירוש אור יקר / מאת משה קורדואירו]. [Zohar with Moses Cordovero's commentary, Genesis 6–25].
Classmark: MS ROTH/406
Creator(s): Cordovero, Moses ben Jacob (1522-1570)(commentator)
Date(s): [16-18th century]
Language: Hebrew; Aramaic
Size and medium: 171 leaves : paper
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/115652
Description
Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 406.
Variant titles:
Parshanut ʿal ha-Zohar. פרשנות על הזוהר.
Date of production: Roth dates the item to the "18th century" (see his Catalogue", 406); the Online Catalogue of the National Library of Israel (NLI) dates it to the 16th century.
The name משה is marked in several places (like in folios 22r and 123r); likely referring to Mosheh Cordovero and not to the name of the copyist.
State of text: Incomplete, end is missing; stained; underwent conservation work; re-bound; leaves repaired with tissue.
Bibliographical note:
Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 406.
National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 990001793980205171. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 406 made on behalf of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts of the NLI during the 1960s. The microfilm can now be downloaded in a digitised form from the NLI-webpage.
Davis, Handlist 164 (Leeds, 2005), no. 406.
Physical characteristics
Foliation: iii (i is paste-down) + i (original fly-leaf) + 168 (foliated as 1–150, [151], 151[=152]–167[=168]) + ii (original fly-leaves) + iii (iii is paste-down); modern pencil foliation, upper left recto; folios 54r, 98v and 159r are blank.
Catchwords: horizontal, on versos.
Ruling: complex ruling for text with commentary surrounding it; generally 47 ruled lines for commentary.
Number of lines: generally 47 in commentary.
Script: Eastern Hebrew script.
Ms. codex: width 194mm height 292mm
Binding
Bound in full leather over boards in 1997; spine is gilt-lettered with "MS Roth 406"; cloth label inscribed in ink with פרוש על הזהר is remounted from original binding.
Scribal information
Written in one professional hand.
Former owners and annotations
Some short marginal annotations in at least one additional hand; on back fly-leaf verso: some verses from Genesis in a later hand.
Roth’s description of MS Roth 406, cut out from a copy of his printed catalogue, is attached to front paste-down (remounted from original binding).
Access and usage
Access
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