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Vat.ebr.221

Manuscript information

Resource type:
Manuscript
Collection:
Vat.ebr.
Shelfmark:
Vat.ebr.221
Library:
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Date:
15th century (ff. 1-14). 1383 (ff. 16-67)
Support:
Paper
Height:
222
Width:
148
Extent:
70 ff.
Exhibit Tags:
Kabbalah

Description

Date:
15th century (ff. 1-14). 1383 (ff. 16-67), 15th century, late 14th century
Beginning date:
1401
Ending date:
1500
Dated Mss:
1383
Collation:
Quaternions
Writing:
Byzantine semi-cursive scripts (I). Sephardic-Byzantine semi-cursive script (II)
Writing - Note:
Apparently by two hands (I). Ff. 16-67 were copied in Rhodes by Moses Kimḥi for his son Eliezer Kimḥi and completed on 20 Iyyar 5143=1383 (II).
General note:
Two different manuscripts bound together: I (ff. 1-14). II (ff. 16-67). and On the flyleaf at the beginning notes on the Divine Name of seventy-two letters.
Language:
Hebrew.
Alphabet:
Hebrew.
Colophon:
F. 67r: השלמתי ספר המורה בעזרת הבורא ביום חמישי בעיר רודוס בשנת חמשת אלפים ומאה ושלשה וארבעים שנה לבריאת עלמא בחדש אייר בכ' יום ממנו וכתבתיו אני משה קמחי לר' אליעזר קמחי בני, הרחמן יזכהו להגות בו הוא ובנו אחריו שנ' אני 'זאת בריתי אותם אמר ה
Origin:
<Byzantium> (I). Rhodes (II)
Provenance:
Palatine collection, Fondo Fuggeriana ebr. 75

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. 159-160.

Parts of this manuscript

1v-14v

G'iḳaṭilah, Yosef ben Avraham, סודות שני[! וצ"ל שאני] מלקט מספר גנת אגוז בעד שלא יכולתי להעתיקו

Date:
15th century
Beginning date:
1401
Ending date:
1500
Overview:
Part I (ff. 1-14)
Locus:
1v-14v
Author:
G'iḳaṭilah, Yosef ben Avraham, n. 1248 [internal]
Title:
סודות שני[! וצ"ל שאני] מלקט מספר גנת אגוז בעד שלא יכולתי להעתיקו
Supplied title:
Extracts from Ginat Egoz
General note:
"Ginat Egoz", a kabbalistic treatise by Joseph Gikatilla. and The scribe noted at the beginning that he copied only extracts because he could not copy the full text.
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. 159-160.

16r-18r

Elʿazar Ashkenazi ben Natan, [מראות אלהים] and Marʾot Elohim

Date:
Late 14th century
Dated Mss:
1383
Overview:
Part II (ff. 16-67)
Locus:
16r-18r
Author:
Elʿazar Ashkenazi ben Natan, ha-Bavli, sec. XIV. Opere spurie e dubbie [internal]
Other author:
Mosheh ben Maimon, 1135-1204 [external]
Supplied title:
[מראות אלהים] and Marʾot Elohim
Incipit text:
אמר אלעזר הצעיר אשכנזי
General note:
Commentary on Moses b. Maimon's "Guide of the Perplexed", part iii, chapters 1-7, by Eleazar Ashkenazi. and A. Epstein מקדמוניות היהודים (Jerusalem 1957), pp. 174-175, speculates that the author may be Eleazar Ashkenazi b. Nathan ha-Bavli, author of "Ẓafnat Peʿaneaḥ".
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. 160.

18v-35v

Ḳonsṭanṭini, Ḥanokh ben Shelomoh al-, [מראות אלהים] and Marʾot Elohim

Date:
Late 14th century
Dated Mss:
1383
Overview:
Part II (ff. 16-67)
Locus:
18v-35v
Author:
Ḳonsṭanṭini, Ḥanokh ben Shelomoh al-, f. 1370 [internal]
Supplied title:
[מראות אלהים] and Marʾot Elohim
Uniform title:
Marʾot Elohim (Ḳonsṭanṭini, Ḥanokh ben Shelomoh al-, f. 1370)
General note:
Philosophical commentary on the "merkavah" (Divine Chariot).
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. 160.

36r-56r

Yaʿaḳov ben Elʿazar, [זה ספר פרדס רמוני החכמה וערוגת בשם [המזמה

Date:
Late 14th century
Dated Mss:
1383
Overview:
Part II (ff. 16-67)
Locus:
36r-56r
Author:
Yaʿaḳov ben Elʿazar, di Toledo, 1170-1233 [internal]
Title:
[זה ספר פרדס רמוני החכמה וערוגת בשם [המזמה
Supplied title:
Sefer Pardes Rimmonei ha-Ḥokhmah va-ʿArugat Bosem [ha-Mezimah]
Explicit text:
ולא ימצאו עוד לעולם
General note:
Philosophical work in rhymed prose by Jacob b. Eleazar of Toledo.
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. 160.

56v-67r

Yaʿaḳov ben Elʿazar, ספר גן תעודות וערוגת חקות חמודות

Date:
Late 14th century
Dated Mss:
1383
Overview:
Part II (ff. 16-67)
Locus:
56v-67r
Author:
Yaʿaḳov ben Elʿazar, di Toledo, 1170-1233 [internal]
Title:
ספר גן תעודות וערוגת חקות חמודות
Supplied title:
Jacob b. Eleazar's Sefer Gan Teʿudot va-ʿArugat Ḥukkot Ḥammudot
General note:
Title f. 67r. and On ethical and philosophical topics.
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. 160.

67v

זאת היא צורת העולם כלו

Date:
Late 14th century
Dated Mss:
1383
Overview:
Part II (ff. 16-67)
Locus:
67v
Title:
זאת היא צורת העולם כלו
General note:
A diagram of the universe in concentric circles.
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. 160.