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.
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
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
- 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
[מראות אלהים] and Marʾot Elohim
- Date:
- Late 14th century
- Dated Mss:
- 1383
- Overview:
- Part II (ff. 16-67)
- Locus:
- 16r-18r
- 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
[מראות אלהים] and Marʾot Elohim
- Date:
- Late 14th century
- Dated Mss:
- 1383
- Overview:
- Part II (ff. 16-67)
- Locus:
- 18v-35v
- 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
[זה ספר פרדס רמוני החכמה וערוגת בשם [המזמה
- Date:
- Late 14th century
- Dated Mss:
- 1383
- Overview:
- Part II (ff. 16-67)
- Locus:
- 36r-56r
- 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
ספר גן תעודות וערוגת חקות חמודות
- Date:
- Late 14th century
- Dated Mss:
- 1383
- Overview:
- Part II (ff. 16-67)
- Locus:
- 56v-67r
- 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.