[Sefer hekhalot] : manuscript.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

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

Standardized Title:

• Hebrew book of Enoch.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

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

Penn Provenance:

• Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
• Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
• Adler.
• Graziano, Abraham Joseph Salomon.

Physical Description:

• 39 fols. (loose leaves; Halper: originally fastened together by a string): consecutive, complete
• Paper 21.2 X 15.3 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: columns: 1 lines: 22.

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Other Title:

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

Place of Publication:

[Europe], [publisher not identified], [14th century-15th century?]

Language Note:

Hebrew. Hebrew

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).
• Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

• Halper, no. 436
• IMHM, no. F38400

Publications about:

Published along with six other mss, as part of synoptic edition, by P. Schafer: Synopse zur Hekhalot-Literatur / Zusammenarbeit mit Margarete Schlüter und Hans Georg von Mutius ; herausgegeben von Peter Schäfer. Tubingen : Mohr, 1981. See the description on p. xxi, and content on p. xvi.

Contains:

• Heikhalot rabbati.
• Maʻaśeh merkavah.
• Heikhalot zutrati.
• Merkavah rabbah.

OCLC:

1366218178