Vat.ebr.206
Manuscript information
- Resource type:
- Manuscript
- Collection:
- Vat.ebr.
- Shelfmark:
- Vat.ebr.206
- Library:
- Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
- Date:
- ca. 1400
- Support:
- Parchment (outer and inner bifolia of each quire) and paper
- Height:
- 217
- Width:
- 146
- Extent:
- 563 ff.
Description
- Date:
- ca. 1400
- Collation:
- Eight-bifolia and some twelve-bifolia quires
- Foliation:
- 1-75, 78-97, <1>, 98-545, <1>, 546-563
- Writing:
- Byzantine semi-cursive script
- Watermarks:
- Watermarks similar to Piccard, "Ochsenkopf", no. 971 dated 1405-1410
- Language:
- Hebrew.
- Alphabet:
- Hebrew.
- Origin:
- <Crete>
- Provenance:
- Palatine collection, Fondo Fuggeriana ebr. 79
- History:
- On f. 2v an owner noted that he received the book as a gift from Meyuḥas Delmedigo, a member of a well-known family in Candia זה הספר נתן לי כ"ר מיוחס דלמדגו מתנה מוחלטת. On f. 1r a note on the acquisition of the manuscript by Fugger: "1541. xi maii emi quatuor volumina signata hoc signo […] ducatis novem".
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. 145.
Parts of this manuscript
30r-560v
[ספר הזוהר]
- Locus:
- 30r-560v
- Title:
- [ספר הזוהר]
- Supplied title:
- Zohar
- Uniform title:
- Zohar
- General note:
- Does not always follow the order of the printed editions. The original manuscript, from Genesis on, extends from f. 30 until f. 556v (= ff. 1-527 in the old Hebrew numeration, possibly added by the scribe). Ff. 30r-166v: "Tikkunei Zohar". Ff. 168r-388v: "Zohar" on Genesis to Deuteronomy (pericope "Va-Etḥannan") with many omissions completed further on in the manuscript. Ff. 389r-560r include "Zohar" on most of the first part of Genesis, on pericopes "Noaḥ to Va-Yera" (ff. 389r-427r), on pericope "Va-Yeẓe" (ff. 427r-437r), on pericope "Bereshit" (ff. 440r-455v, 560r-v) and on "Va-Yeḥi" (ff. 457r-462r). On ff. 462v-556v: "Zohar" on pericopes from Exodus to Numbers not copied above and a short part of Zohar on pericope "Va-Yelekh" from Deuteronomy (ff. 553r-556v).
- 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. 145.
1v-2v
Kabbalistic permutations and values of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet
- Overview:
- Ff. 1-29 are two additional parchment and paper quires bound with the manuscript, but the first folio of the first quire is missing.
- Locus:
- 1v-2v
- Supplied title:
- Kabbalistic permutations and values of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet
- 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. 145.
4v-6v
Extracts from Zohar on Exodus
- Overview:
- Ff. 1-29 are two additional parchment and paper quires bound with the manuscript, but the first folio of the first quire is missing.
- Locus:
- 4v-6v
- Supplied title:
- Extracts from Zohar on Exodus
- Uniform title:
- Zohar
- 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. 145.
11r
References and indexes to the text of the Zohar in the manuscript
- Overview:
- Ff. 1-29 are two additional parchment and paper quires bound with the manuscript, but the first folio of the first quire is missing.
- Locus:
- 11r
- Supplied title:
- References and indexes to the text of the Zohar in the manuscript
- General note:
- The date March 1442 is mentioned three times מרצו אתמ"ב.
- 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. 145.
12r-28r
Completions of pericopes Va-Yigash and Yitro
- Overview:
- Ff. 1-29 are two additional parchment and paper quires bound with the manuscript, but the first folio of the first quire is missing.
- Locus:
- 12r-28r
- Supplied title:
- Completions of pericopes Va-Yigash and Yitro
- Uniform title:
- Zohar
- 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. 145.
560r
מספר בראשית
- Locus:
- 560r
- Title:
- מספר בראשית
- Supplied title:
- Extracts from Zohar on Genesis
- Uniform title:
- Zohar
- General note:
- On f. 560r (last parchment folio of the last quire) the scribe (most probably) added extracts from "Zohar" on Genesis מספר בראשית.
- 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. 145.
561r
Extracts from Zohar on Genesis
- Locus:
- 561r
- Supplied title:
- Extracts from Zohar on Genesis
- General note:
- Ff. 561-562 are thin parchment strips added to the manuscript on which another hand added some further extracts on Genesis (only on f. 561r).
- 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. 145.
563v
Draft of a letter
- Locus:
- 563v
- Supplied title:
- Draft of a letter
- General note:
- F. 563 is a paper strip on the verso of which another Byzantine hand added the draft of a letter mentioning the death of a person (name erased) in Canea בקנייא.
- 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. 145.