❧ Description
A composite manuscript of 253 quarto leaves bringing together two pieces. Piece no. 2 (Maghrebi heart): Sefer ha-Kavod, an unpublished kabbalistic treatise in five parts. Colophon (Neubauer): “copied from a MS. in cursive German characters by Ḥiyya hak-Kohen [name uncertain] of Morocco, for the physician Sh’lomoh, completed 4 Ḥeshvan 5486 = 1725.” The manuscript is a graphic translation: a text in Ashkenazi cursive recopied in Sephardic rabbinic script for the library of a Moroccan physician. The Bodleian has no printed copy, which makes it a rare witness. Piece no. 1: Ta’amei Mitsvot by R. Mord’khai, autograph in German cursive, composed in 1759.
Provenance: 1 Sefer ha-Kavod copied from an Ashkenazi model by Ḥiyya hak-Kohen of Morocco, for the physician Sh'lomo, 1725 2 Ta'amei Mitsvot (1759) added later 3 Heimann Joseph Michael collection (1792-1846), Hamburg 4 Bodleian Library, 1848
Codicological notice — origin Morocco; copyist: Ḥiyya hak-Kohen [name uncertain]; script: Sephardic; leaves: 253 folios; dimensions: quarto; old catalogues: Neubauer Catalogue 1886 · 1310; editorial status: Unpublished.
— Source: Mémoires des Manuscrits Juifs du Moyen-Âge Maghrébin (MMJMM / Collectif GMPL), https://mmjmm.org/corpus/catalogue/bodleian-mich-531; manuscript held at the Bodleian Library (Oxford). Notice published under CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
