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Selected Manuscripts from the "Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project"

Vat.ebr.199

Manuscript information

Resource type:
Manuscript
Collection:
Vat.ebr.
Shelfmark:
Vat.ebr.199
Library:
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Date:
ca. 1400
Support:
Paper
Height:
286
Width:
215
Extent:
357 ff.
Exhibit Tags:
Kabbalah

Description

Date:
ca. 1400
Collation:
Eight-bifolia quires
Writing:
Byzantine semi-cursive script
Watermarks:
One of the watermarks is similar to Briquet no. 5220 dated 1414, which, according to the additions in the Amsterdam edition, is already found in a document dated 1387
Language:
Hebrew.
Alphabet:
Hebrew.
Origin:
<Byzantium>
Provenance:
Palatine collection, Fondo Fuggeriana ebr. 60
History:
On f. 1r a note on the acquisition of the manuscript by Fugger: "1542. primo maii septem [corrected to sex] libros hoc signo eodem ducatis sex".

Administrative information

Source of information:
B. Richler, M. Beit-Arié, N. Pasternak, Hebrew manuscripts in the Vatican Library: Catalogue, Città del Vaticano 2008 (Studi e testi 438), p. 139.

Parts of this manuscript

1r-357v

[(ספר הזוהר (ויקרא] and Extracts from the Zohar

Locus:
1r-357v
Supplied title:
[(ספר הזוהר (ויקרא] and Extracts from the Zohar
Summary:
Extracts from the Zohar with additional extracts.
General note:
Includes mainly Zohar on Leviticus interspersed with extracts on other parts of the Pentateuch. The extracts on pericopes "Va-Yikra", "Shemini", "Aḥarei Mot" and "Kedoshim" and some other parts were copied out of order and dispersed throughout the manuscript. Includes a few extracts from pericope "Va-Yeḥi" from Genesis (ff. 207r-209v), and from pericopes from Exodus: "Bo" (ff. 248r-254r), "Be-Shalaḥ" (ff. 223v-247v) and "Terumah" (ff. 254r-258v) and Zohar on Numbers until pericope "Pinḥas" (ff. 254r-343v)., On f. 182 (a folio from another manuscript bound with this codex) another hand added extracts on Kabbalah including סוד הקרבן., and On ff. 351v-356v: additional extracts, among them on "tefillin" ענין התפילין (f. 356v), a piece on the hidden lights and the Sefirot (ff. 352v-353r) beginning סבה ראשונה מהיצורים הגנוזה ברא שני מדרגות (cf. G. Scholem, ראשית הקבלה, Jerusalem 1948, p. 261, no. 27), an extract on benedictions and on a separate folio (f. 357) a fragment froma liturgy ("tokheḥah").
Language:
Hebrew.
Alphabet:
Hebrew.
Source of information:
B. Richler, M. Beit-Arié, N. Pasternak, Hebrew manuscripts in the Vatican Library: Catalogue, Città del Vaticano 2008 (Studi e testi 438), p. 139.