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Selected Manuscripts from the "Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project"

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.
Exhibit Tags:
Kabbalah

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.