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Selected Manuscripts from the "Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project"

Vat.ebr.220

Manuscript information

Resource type:
Manuscript
Collection:
Vat.ebr.
Shelfmark:
Vat.ebr.220
Library:
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Date:
Mid-15th century
Dated Mss:
1451
Support:
Paper
Height:
221
Width:
159
Extent:
127 ff.
Exhibit Tags:
Kabbalah

Description

Date:
mid-15th century
Dated Mss:
1451
Collation:
Quaternions
Writing:
Byzantine semi-cursive scripts
Writing - Note:
Completed on 5 Sivan 5211=1451 (or 5216=1456) by Joseph b. Gershon Bonifacio (cf. MSS Vat. ebr. 195 and ebr. 187 where a Joseph Bonifacio of Constantinople, probably identical with the scribe of this manuscript, is mentioned). Ff. 49r-68r and 115r, line 8-123r were copied by another hand.
Language:
Hebrew.
Alphabet:
Hebrew.
Colophon:
F. 112v: ... שנת האיר בה' לסיון השלמתי ספר תרומה וגם היחוד אני יוסף בון פצו ב"ר גרשון נ"ע השם יזכני להגות בו
Origin:
<Constantinople?>
Provenance:
Palatine collection, Fondo Fuggeriana ebr. 120

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. 159.

Parts of this manuscript

49r-112v

[ספר התמונה] and Sefer ha-Temunah

Locus:
49r-112v
Supplied title:
[ספר התמונה] and Sefer ha-Temunah
General note:
Kabbalistic treatise composed in the 1270's
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. 159.

1r-48v

סוד שם היחוד

Locus:
1r-48v
Title:
סוד שם היחוד
Supplied title:
Commentary on Sefer ha-Yiḥud
General note:
From the same milieu as "Sefer ha-Temunah" and With a supercommentary in the margins identical to the one in MS Vat. ebr. 223
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. 159.

115r-123r

[סוד שם המפורש] and Sod Shem ha-Meforash

Locus:
115r-123r
Supplied title:
[סוד שם המפורש] and Sod Shem ha-Meforash
General note:
From the same milieu as Sefer ha-Temunah and With a commentary and additional commentaries in the margins
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. 159.