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Selected Manuscripts from the "Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project"

Vat.ebr.218

Manuscript information

Resource type:
Manuscript
Collection:
Vat.ebr.
Shelfmark:
Vat.ebr.218
Library:
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Date:
ca. 1400
Support:
Paper
Height:
216
Width:
147
Extent:
171 ff.
Exhibit Tags:
Kabbalah

Description

Date:
ca. 1400
Collation:
Senions
Foliation:
<2> + 1-90, 90a-90k, 91-159
Writing:
Byzantine semi-cursive script (I). Sephardic semi-cursive script (II).
Watermarks:
Watermarks similar to Briquet nos. 7672 or 7676 dated 1393 and 1401 respectively (I). Watermarks similar to Briquet no. 2412 dated 1390-1404 and to those of unit no. 1 (II).
General note:
Two separate manuscripts bound together: I (ff. <2> + ff. 1-12). II (ff. 13-90, 90a-90k, 91-159).
Language:
Hebrew.
Alphabet:
Hebrew.
Origin:
<Byzantium>
Provenance:
Palatine collection, Fondo Fuggeriana ebr. 108
History:
On f. 1b recto a deed of sale of the manuscript, partly erased. The name of the seller is Elijah b. Abraham אני אליאו בר אברהם איך מכרתי זה הספר לר' [אל...] וקבלתי ממנו הפרעון. Between ff. 65 and 66 there is a slip of paper with notes by the "gabbai" of a synagogue, probably in Candia, listing the names of worshippers who were called to read from the Torah or performed other duties in the synagogue in 5236=1475/6. Most of the names are from the Delmedigo and Balbo families.

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), pp. 157-158.

Parts of this manuscript

1r-5r

אבאר קצת ביאור ע"ב אותיות

Overview:
Manuscript I (<2> + ff. 1-12)
Locus:
1r-5r
Title:
אבאר קצת ביאור ע"ב אותיות
Supplied title:
Commentary on the Divine Name of seventy-two letters
Incipit text:
והו בגימטריא אגוז אהוה
General note:
Composed in the milieu that produced the "Sefer ha-Temunah".
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. 157.

5v-10r

Menaḥem, הדברים לקטנום מדברי המאור הגדול הרב רבנא מנחם תלמיד מרנא ורבנא רבי אלעזר דוורמישא

Overview:
Manuscript I (<2> + ff. 1-12)
Locus:
5v-10r
Author:
Menaḥem, allievo di Elʿazar ben Yehudah di Worms, sec. XIII [internal]
Title:
הדברים לקטנום מדברי המאור הגדול הרב רבנא מנחם תלמיד מרנא ורבנא רבי אלעזר דוורמישא
Supplied title:
Commentary on the ten Sefirot
Incipit text:
כתי' כי ביה ה' צור עולמים
Explicit text:
נשלם פירוש הספירות על דרך הקבלה
General note:
Cf. G. Scholem, מפתח לפירושים על עשר ספירות "KS", x (1933/4), p. 504, no. 50.
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. 157.

13r-90, 90a-90k, 91-153v

פי' שם הייחוד

Overview:
Manuscript II (ff. 13-90, 90a-90k, 91-159)
Locus:
13r-90, 90a-90k, 91-153v
Title:
פי' שם הייחוד
Supplied title:
[פירוש ספר התמונה] and Commentary on the kabbalistic work Sefer ha-Temunah
Summary:
Commentary on Sefer ha-Temunah, followed by a supercommentary on פירוש שם המיוחד.
Incipit text:
שמע יש[ראל] הנה בזה הפסוק יתיחד שם המיוחד הן בתיבותיו הן באותיותיו הן בצורות אותיותיו (f. 109r)
General note:
On ff. 109r-153v: פי' שם הייחוד a supercommentary on פירוש שם המיוחד (on the Divine Name of seventy-two letters copied in manuscripts and printed editions of "Sefer ha-Temunah") also found in MSS Vat. ebr. 188, 223 and other manuscripts.
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), pp. 157-158.