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Selected Manuscripts from the "Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project"

Vat.ebr.231

Manuscript information

Resource type:
Manuscript
Collection:
Vat.ebr.
Shelfmark:
Vat.ebr.231
Library:
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Date:
Mid-late 15th century
Beginning date:
1426
Ending date:
1500
Support:
Paper
Height:
215
Width:
145
Extent:
115 ff.
Exhibit Tags:
Kabbalah

Description

Date:
mid-late 15th century
Beginning date:
1426
Ending date:
1500
Collation:
Quaternions
Foliation:
A-D, 1-111
Writing:
Ashkenazic current semi-cursive script
Language:
Hebrew.
Alphabet:
Hebrew.
Origin:
<Ashkenaz>
Provenance:
Palatine collection, Fondo Fuggeriana ebr. 99
History:
Owner (f. D recto): Isaac Kuli בחלקי הוא יצחק כולי

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. 169.

Parts of this manuscript

1r-15v

Baḥya ben Yosef ibn Paḳuda, חובות הלבבות] ספר היחוד]

Locus:
1r-15v
Author:
Baḥya ben Yosef ibn Paḳuda, sec. XI [internal]
Title:
חובות הלבבות] ספר היחוד]
Supplied title:
Shaʿar ha-Yiḥud
Uniform title:
Hidāyah ilá farāʼiḍ al-qulūb. Ebraico
General note:
From Baḥya b. Joseph ibn Paquda's "Ḥovot ha-Levavot" (“Duties of the Heart”), translated by Judah ibn Tibbon. and Title at end.
Other name:
Ibn Tibon, Yehudah, 1120-1190 [translator]
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. 169.

17r-v

Elʿazar ben Yehudah, סוד העיבור והיבום בשם הר"ר אליעזר מגרמייזא

Locus:
17r-v
Author:
Elʿazar ben Yehudah, di Worms, c. 1176-1238 [internal]
Title:
סוד העיבור והיבום בשם הר"ר אליעזר מגרמייזא
Supplied title:
Sod ha-Ibbur veha-Yibbum
Incipit text:
כל הנשמות מששת ימי בראשית מצוירות
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. 169.

18r-26v

Mosheh ben Naḥman, ספר הקודש מהרמב"ן ז"ל אגרת ששלח הרמב"ן לאחד מהחברים בעניין חיבור איש אל אשתו

Locus:
18r-26v
Author:
Mosheh ben Naḥman, c. 1195-c. 1270. Opere spurie e dubbie [internal]
Title:
ספר הקודש מהרמב"ן ז"ל אגרת ששלח הרמב"ן לאחד מהחברים בעניין חיבור איש אל אשתו
Supplied title:
Iggeret ha-Kodesh, and Shaʿarei Ẓedek
Incipit text:
בני השם ישמרך ויחייך וידריכך בדרך ישרה באורח זה תלך אודיעך הנה המאכלים הראויים (f. 26v) Section on foods and יהי רצון מלפניך צור כל העולמים (f. 26v) Prayer
General note:
Anonymous kabbalistic-ethical work wrongly attributed to Moses b. Naḥman and printed with the title אגרת הקדש "Iggeret ha-Kodesh"., In some MSS it is titled "Shaʿarei Ẓedek"., On the authorship cf. G. Scholem, ? האם חיבר הרמב"ן את ס' אגרת הקודש "KS", xxi (1944/5), pp. 179-186., and On f. 26v the section on foods, found in many other manuscripts and a prayer to be recited before conducting sexual intercourse.
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. 169.

29r-107r

Perets ben Yitsḥaḳ, מערכת האלהות

Locus:
29r-107r
Author:
Perets ben Yitsḥaḳ, ha-Kohen, sec. XIII. Opere spurie e dubbie [internal]
Other author:
Recanati, Menaḥem ben Binyamin, m. 1290 [internal]
G'iḳaṭilah, Yosef ben Avraham, n. 1248 [internal]
Yitsḥaḳ ben Shemuʾel, di ʻAkko, sec. XIII-XIV [internal]
Title:
מערכת האלהות
Supplied title:
Maʿarekhet ha-Elohut
General note:
On the attribution of this kabbalistic work to R. Pereẓ cf. G. Scholem לבעיות ספר מערכת האלהות ומפרשיו "KS", xxi (1944/5), pp. 284-287., With glosses inserted into the text and in the margins., and The commentator quotes Recanati's commentary on the Pentateuch, שערי אורה by Joseph Gikatilla and ספר מאירת עינים=] סמ"ע] by Isaac of Acre.
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. 169.

107v-111v

Kabbalistic secrets of prayers

Locus:
107v-111v
Supplied title:
Kabbalistic secrets of prayers
Incipit text:
מדת יום ת"ת ומדת לילה מלכות
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. 169.

28v

Avraham Menaḥem Verses on the Maʿarekhet

Locus:
28v
Author:
Avraham Menaḥem [internal]
Supplied title:
Verses on the Maʿarekhet
Incipit text:
אופן אשר יסוב ברום גלגל
General note:
A Sephardic hand added on a blank page (f. 28v) verses on the "Maʿarekhet" by Abraham Menahem (acrostic).
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. 169.