[ʿAśarah maʾamarot : ḥeleḳ 2 : min Maʾamar Shabtot ha-Shem ʿad Shivre ha-luḥot / mi-et Menaḥem ʿAzaryah mi-Fano]. [עשרה מאמרות : חלק ב׳ : מן מאמר שבתות השם עד שברי הלוחות / מאת מנחם עזריה מפאנו].

Description

Title supplied by cataloguer.


Variant titles:

Ḳovets ḥibure ha-Remaʿmi-Fano. קובץ חבורי הרמ׳׳ע מפנו.

Shabtot H. שבתות ה׳.


Contents:

(The first original leaf of the manuscript is foliated as 2).

1. folios 2r–53r: מאמר שבתות ה׳ (in 7 parts).

2. folio 54: blank.

3. folios 55r–75r: מאמר המלואים.

4. folio 75v: blank.

5. folios 76–91:מאמר העתים.

6. folios 92r–101r: מאמר הרקיעים.

7. folio 101v: blank.

8. folios 102r–109r: מאמר היסודות.

9. folio 109v: blank.

10. folios 110–129: מאמר שברי הלוחות.


Censor’s signature in folio 129v (see below Censors)


See also MS Roth *424 which is written by the same hand.


State of text: Item underwent conservation work; most leaves repaired with tissue.


Bibliographical note:

National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 990001794500205171 and for depending records; The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth MS Roth *424–*425 made on behalf of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts of the NLI during the 1960s; in the microfilm, the volume which is now identified as Ms Roth *425 is identified as MS Roth *424 and vice versa. The microfilm can now be downloaded in a digitised form from the NLI-webpage.

Davis, Handlist 164 (Leeds, 2005), no. *424–*425.

On the different editions of ʿAśarah maʾamarot, see Joseph Avivi, "Kabbalistic Works of the Rema of Fano [in Heb.]", Sefunot 19 (1989), 347–55 (MS Roth 425* is not discussed).

Physical characteristics

Script: Italian cursive Hebrew script.; Italian cursive Hebrew script.

Ms. codex: width 136mm height 203mm

Binding

16th–17th-century(?) full leather (restored) over thick boards with intricate blind tooled and gilt-embossed decorations (upper and lower cover identical) comprising a two panel design; first panel is constituted by broad blind-tooled border with decorative roll; at its inner angels are gilt floral bouquets in vases with handles; the second panel is constituted by rhombus with blind-tooled broad border roll in centre of first panel; simple gilt flowers at inner angles of rhombus border; a small gilt oval frame containing a small simple flower is the centre piece of the rhombus panel; original spine is not preserved; red text block edges. Binding and item underwent extensive conservation work in the 1990s; item has been rebound and rebacked by conservation; the original covers of boards were remounted on new full leather binding; new spine is gilt-lettered with "MS ROTH 425". MS ROTH/*424 has very similar binding.

Scribal information

Written by 1 professsional hand (MS Roth *424 was written by the same hand).

Censors

"Camillo Jaghel 1619" (folio 129v)

Former owners and annotations

Owner’s note in folio 2r (transcription not fully clear).


Stamp with abbreviations in Cyrillic letters on folio 3r.


עשרה מאמרות מאת הרב הגאון המקובל הרמ''ע מפאנו ז''ל is inscribed by a much later hand in ink on front fly-leaf (machine-made; foliated as 1).


Roth acquired MS Roth *425 most likely after 1950 as it is not listed in his, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), 503–35

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