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Selected Manuscripts from the "Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project"

Vat.ebr.223

Manuscript information

Resource type:
Manuscript
Collection:
Vat.ebr.
Shelfmark:
Vat.ebr.223
Library:
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Date:
Late 15th century
Beginning date:
1476
Ending date:
1500
Support:
Parchment (outer and inner bifolia of each quire) and restored watermarked paper
Height:
216
Width:
145
Extent:
240 ff.
Exhibit Tags:
Kabbalah

Description

Date:
late 15th century
Beginning date:
1476
Ending date:
1500
Collation:
Eight-bifolia quires
Foliation:
<1> + 239
Writing:
Byzantine semi-cursive script
Writing - Note:
The name of the scribe, Abraham, was singled out on f. 37v.
Watermarks:
Watermarks similar to Briquet no.14847 dated 1464
Language:
Hebrew.
Alphabet:
Hebrew.
Origin:
<Byzantium>
Provenance:
Palatine collection, Fondo Fuggeriana ebr. 102

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. 161.

Parts of this manuscript

70v-171r

ספר התמונה

Locus:
70v-171r
Title:
ספר התמונה
Supplied title:
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. 161.

1r-69v

ספר הייחוד or סוד שם המיוחד

Locus:
1r-69v
Title:
ספר הייחוד or סוד שם המיוחד
Supplied title:
Commentary on Sefer ha-Yiḥud
General note:
From the same milieu as "Sefer ha-Temunah" and With a supercommentary identical to the one in MS Vat. ebr. 218 and other notes
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. 161.

174v-238r

סוד שם המפורש

Locus:
174v-238r
Title:
סוד שם המפורש
Supplied title:
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. 161.