Shaʿare orah / asher ḥiber ha-ḥakham ba-ḥokhm. ha-amitit Yosef n. Giḳaṭilyah. שערי אורה / אשר חבר החכם בחכמ׳ האמיתית כה׳׳ר יוסף ן׳ גיקאטילייה. [Pizmon be-ʿArvit]. [פזמון בערבית].
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Title: Shaʿare orah / asher ḥiber ha-ḥakham ba-ḥokhm. ha-amitit Yosef n. Giḳaṭilyah. שערי אורה / אשר חבר החכם בחכמ׳ האמיתית כה׳׳ר יוסף ן׳ גיקאטילייה. [Pizmon be-ʿArvit]. [פזמון בערבית].
Classmark: MS ROTH/413
Creator(s): Gikatilla, Joseph ben Abraham (1248-)(author)
Date(s): [1601]
Language: Hebrew; Judaeo-Arabic
Size and medium: 102 leaves : paper
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/115659
Description
Hebrew title supplied from heading on folio 68v. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 413.
Variant titles:
Sefer Shaʿare orah. ספר שערי אורה.
Folios 68v–169v of MS Roth 413et516a (on the whole codex, see main record).
Contents:
1. folios 68v–169r: שערי אורה.
2. folio 169v: Hymn in Judaeo-Arabic, most likely added by a later hand.
Long colophon in flowery style on folio 169r without name of scribe (see Hebrew text of its end with date in record of whole codex).
State of text: Incomplete with some leaves (2 after folio 90 and 1 after folio 97) within text block missing; extreme fragile and brittle; detached from binding with all sewing gone; inner margins and sometimes whole leaves are damaged by pests with loss of text.
Bibliographical note:
Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 413.
National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 990001859230205171. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 413 made on behalf of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts of the NLI during the 1960s.
Davis, Handlist 164 (Leeds, 2005), no. 413.
Physical characteristics
Foliation: 102 (foliated as 68–169); modern pencil foliation, upper left recto; folios 68–104 are foliated in ink, likely by the scribe, as א-כא, כא-כב, כו-[לב], לד-מ, generally on upper left recto; folios כג-כה and לג are missing (as indicated by catchwords and text).
Catchwords: horizontal, versos.
Number of lines: 32–34.
Script: Yemenite Hebrew script.
Ms. component part: width 112mm height 180mm
Scribal information
Written by 1 professional hand except, likley, folio 169v, and possibly some marginal notes.
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