Derush hishtalshelut ha-ʿolamot mi-pi ha-Ari [mi-kitve Ḥayim Ṿital u-Derushim aḥerim / mi-et Yosef n. Ṭabul, Yitsḥaḳ Lurya, Ḥayim Ṿital, ṿe-Yiśraʾel Saruḳ]. ספר דרוש השתלשלות העולמות מפי האר׳׳י / [מכתבי חיים ויטל ודרושים אחרים / מאת יוסף ן' טבול,יצחק לוריא, חיים ויטל, וישראל סרוק ]. [Expositions and lessons in Lurianic kabbalah].
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Title: Derush hishtalshelut ha-ʿolamot mi-pi ha-Ari [mi-kitve Ḥayim Ṿital u-Derushim aḥerim / mi-et Yosef n. Ṭabul, Yitsḥaḳ Lurya, Ḥayim Ṿital, ṿe-Yiśraʾel Saruḳ]. ספר דרוש השתלשלות העולמות מפי האר׳׳י / [מכתבי חיים ויטל ודרושים אחרים / מאת יוסף ן' טבול,יצחק לוריא, חיים ויטל, וישראל סרוק ]. [Expositions and lessons in Lurianic kabbalah].
Classmark: MS ROTH/414
Creator(s): (author); (author); Luria, Isaac ben Solomon (1534-1572)(author)
Date(s): [1665]
Language: Hebrew
Size and medium: 100 leaves : paper, illustrations
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/115660
Description
Hebrew title supplied from title page, and by cataloguer. English title supplied by cataloguer.
Variant titles:
Sefer Derush hishtalshelut ha-ʿolamot. ספר דרוש השתלשלות העולמות.
Derush ha-atsilut be-ḳitsur muflag she-shalaḥ R. Shimshon Baḳ le-Iṭalyah.
Limudim. למודים. לימודים.
Derushim.
Date of production in title page text (see Hebrew text below in Scribal information): 11 Elul 425 [22 August 1665].
The expositions are numbered in Hebrew in the outer margins from א to ס.
Contents: (as identified by Yosef Avivi, ״The writing of Rabbi Isaac Luria in Italy before 1620 [in Heb.]״, Alei Sefer 11 (1984), 107):
Derush 1 (folios 1r–3v): דרוש השתלשלות העולמות known in other manuscripts as דרוש האצילות בקצור מופלג ששלח ר׳ שמשון ב׳׳ק לאיטליה.
Derushim 2–9 (folios 3v–22r) by Yosef ha-Maʿarivi (from ליקוטי דרושים)].
Derushim 16–18 (folios 34v–37v) from the writings of Yitsḥaḳ Luria as transmitted by Ḥayim Ṿital.
Derushim 24–50 (folios 42r–88r) by Ḥayim Ṿital (as collected in ספר הדרושים and ספר הלקוטים).
Derushim 51–60 (folios 88r–99v) by Yiśraʾel Saruḳ.
MS Roth 414 is similar to MS Or. 9161 (British Library, London), and MS Neubauer 1765 (Bodleian Library, Oxford).
State of text: Frayed margins, felting paper but relatively well preserved; item underwent conservation work; some leaves repaired with tissue.
Bibliographical note:
Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 414.
National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 990001793970205171. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 414 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. 414.
Avivi, ״The writing of Rabbi Isaac Luria in Italy before 1620 [in Heb.]״, Alei Sefer 11 (1984), 107-8.
Decoration
Title-page with double border decorated with geometrical pattern drawn in ink most likely by the scribe; small ornaments to fill the line at the end of an exposition; beginning of expositions in bigger bolder square script; maintenance of left margins (not always followed through); catchwords.
Physical characteristics
Foliation: v (i is paste-down) + 100 +v (v is paste-down); folios 1v and 100 are blank.
Catchwords: rectos and versos.
Number of lines: generally 24.
Script: Italian cursive Hebrew script.
Ms. codex: width 115mm height 202mm
Binding
Full brown leather over boards (rebound in 1998); spine is gilt-lettered with "MS Roth 414".
Scribal information
Written by Yehudah ben Yosef Leṿi a.ḳ (ish ḳadosh?; Adelkind?); see title page text: התחלתי לכותבו אני יהודה בכמ׳׳ר יוסף לוי זצ׳׳ל א׳׳ק י׳׳א אלול משנת התכ׳׳ה לבי׳׳א.
Former owners and annotations
Corrections in the margins most likely by the scribe.
Roth’s description of MS Roth 414, cut out from a copy of his printed catalogue, is attached to front paste-down (remounted from previous binding by conservation).
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