[Pardes rimonim (ḥeleḳ) / me-et Mosheh Ḳordovero]. [פרדס רמונים (חלק) /מאת משה קורדובירו].
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: [Pardes rimonim (ḥeleḳ) / me-et Mosheh Ḳordovero]. [פרדס רמונים (חלק) /מאת משה קורדובירו].
Classmark: MS ROTH/419
Creator(s): Cordovero, Moses ben Jacob (1522-1570)(commentator)
Date(s): [16th century]
Language: Hebrew
Size and medium: 44 leaves : paper, illustrations
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/115665
Description
Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer.
Variant title:
Sefer Pardes rimonim. ספר פרדס רמונים.
Incomplete; text contains only gates 27–30, and part of gate 27 and 31:
1. folios 1r–4v: [שער האותיות], that is, gate 27, chapters 25–27 (incomplete).
2. folios 4v–11r: שער הנקודות, that is, gate 28, chapters 1–6 (complete).
3. folios 11r–15v: שער הטעמים, that is, gate 29, chapters 1–5 (complete).
4. folios 16r–26v: שער הצירוף, that is gate 30, chapters 1–9 (complete).
5. folios 26v–44v: שער נשמה, that is gate 31, chapters1–10 (incomplete; most of the text is scarcely legible).
State of text: Incomplete with beginning and end missing; water damages causes substantial loss of text on nearly every extant page; on folios 35–44 most of the text is not readable anymore; item underwent extensive conservation work; leaves repaired with tissue and on guards.
Bibliographical note:
Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 419.
National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 990001859280205171. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 419 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. 419.
Decoration
Oversized leaf with chart of letter permutations (folio 20v); charts with letter permutations also in folios 18v–19v; empty space on folio 21r, likely for another visualisation which was not executed.
Physical characteristics
Foliation: 44; modern pencil foliation, upper left recto; Hebrew foliation, upper left recto, likely by the scribe, is faded on the majority of the leaves (see above State of text); it starts on folio 2 with רכ and is discernible on most folios until folio 24 which is foliated as רמב.
Catchwords: horizontal, on versos.
Number of lines: 25.
Script: Sephardic script.
Ms.: width 144mm height 199mm
Binding
Item was bound by conservation in the 1990s between thin cardboard boards with cloth spine; leaves on guards; originally held in a leather wallet kept with item in a custom-made box covered with brown cloth.
Scribal information
Written by one neat professional hand.
Former owners and annotations
Roth’s description of MS Roth 419, cut out from a copy of his printed catalogue, is attached to folio 1r.
Access and usage
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