[Sefer hekhalot] : manuscript

Alternate Title:

Hekhalot rabati; Hekhalot zutrati; Maʹaśeh merkavah; Merkavah rabbah; Ḥotam gadol; Keter nora; Oath of Sar ha-panim

Name:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Halper 436

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1300s

Language:

Hebrew

Provenance:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).; Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).; Adler.; Graziano, Abraham Joseph Salomon.; Graziano, Abraham Joseph Salomon, approximately 1620-approximately 1683, current owner.

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Cabala; Mysticism -- Judaism -- Early works to 1800; Hekhalot literature; Merkava; Jewish mythology; Mysticism -- Judaism

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

39 fols. (loose leaves; Halper: originally fastened together by a string): consecutive, complete

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Incipits in enlarged square characters, above a space; angels' names denoted by a superior bar.; This collection from the Hekhalot literature contains: Hekhalot rabbati: Fols. 1-5, in the edition pars. 81-121; fols. 5-8, ibid. pars. 156-173; fols. 8-20 verso, ibid. pars. 189-306.; Ḥotam gadol / Keter nora: fol. 20 verso ll. 2-20, ibid pars. 318-321.; Hekhalot zutra: fols 20-26 l. 4, ibid. pars. 335-338,348-368, 373-374, 407-426.; Fols. 26 l. 4-fol. 28, ibid 489-499.; Maʻaseh merkavah: fols. 28 verso l. 11-fol. 36, ibid. pars. 544-596.; Oath of Sar ha-panim: fols. 36 l. 13-fol. 38 verso, ibid. pars. 623-639.; Ḥotam gadol / Keter nora: fol. 38 verso l. 6-fol. 39, ibid. pars. 651-654.; Merkavah rabbah: fol. 39. l. 5-end, ibid. pars. 655-657; The owner's signature is found at the top of fol. 1 אי״ש ג״ר, and again at the top of fol. 38 verso אי״ש גר אנכי בארץ, that is, Abraham Graziano. See Y. Okun: Sifriyat kitve-ha-yad shel Avraham Yosef Shelomoh Gratsiyano (380 le-ʹerekh-445 / Yael Okuhn. Masters dissertation, Jerusalem, 1991 p. 190).; Hebrew. Hebrew; Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 436