Sefer Raziel ha-Gadol (BPH Ms M 207)

Manuscript on paper, early 17th-century Ashkenazic semi-cursive script, consisting of:

1. Ff. 1r-24r: Sefer Raziel ha-Gadol. In the printed editions this work is called Raziel ha-Malakh. This book is a collection of mystical, cosmological and magical Hebrew works and portions of works. First printed in Amsterdam in 1701. The order in this MS is different from the editions and corresponds to the folios in the editions numbered. 32r-36v, 2r-5v (after which the scribe notes that 4 ff. are missing), 22r-27v, 30v-32r.

2. Ff. 24r-60v: Extracts from Abraham b. Alexander of Cologne's Keter Shem Tov and other kabbalistic expositions and secrets, inter alia, explanations of the Ten Sefiroth, one of them in the form of questions and answers by Azriel. Some of the secrets were edited by Daniel Abrams in his R. Asher ben David, his complete works and studies in his kabbalistic thought (Los Angeles 1996).

3. Ff. 61r-123v: Sodei Razayya by R. Eleazar b. Judah of Worms. (ca. 1165- ca. 1230). Kabbalistic treatise composed by one of the leading exponents of the Ashkenazic (German) pietists. Edited in Bilgoray 1936 and again in Jerusalem 1988.