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Vat.ebr.232

Manuscript information

Resource type:
Manuscript
Collection:
Vat.ebr.
Shelfmark:
Vat.ebr.232
Library:
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Date:
1394 (ff. 1-22). Early 15th century (ff. 23-44)
Support:
Parchment and paper (I). Paper (II)
Height:
200 (I. II)
Width:
400 (I). 140 (II)
Extent:
45 ff.
Exhibit Tags:
Kabbalah

Description

Date:
1394 (ff. 1-22). early 15th century (ff. 23-44), late 14th century, early 15th century
Beginning date:
1401
Ending date:
1425
Dated Mss:
1394
Collation:
The outer and inner bifolia of the first quire, a senion, are parchment with a paper folio added at the beginning; in the second quire, a quinion, the outer bifolium was folded and placed at the beginning (f. 14 followed by an unfoliated blank folio that originally was the final folio) (I). Quaternions (II)
Foliation:
Ff. 1-14, <1>, 15-44
Writing:
Byzantine semi-cursive script (I). Sephardic semi-cursive script (II)
Writing - Note:
Ff. 1-22 were copied by Mordecai for his teacher Abraham b. Potito on Sunday, 2 Shevat 5154=1394. The scribe, Mordecai, can be identified as Mordecai b. Eleazar, one of the copyists of MS Escorial G-II-2, a manuscript written for Judah b. Shabbetai (who also took part in the copying) and who also copied MS Oxford, Bodleian Library Mich. 313 for the same owner. Judah b. Shabbetai copied, together with his son, MS Moscow, RSL Guenzburg 968 in Corfu in 1391/2-1403.
Watermarks:
Watermarks similar to Briquet no. 5287 dated 1395 and 1420 (II)
General note:
Two separate manuscripts bound together: I (ff. 1-14, <1>, 15-22). II (ff. 23-44)
Language:
Hebrew.
Alphabet:
Hebrew.
Colophon:
F. 22r: בראשון בשבת בב' ימים לחדש שבט שנת הקנ"ד לפרט נשלם זה הספר ... על יד לי מרדכי הצעיר וכתבתי למורי ורבי ר' אברהם י"ל בכ"ר פותיטו תנצב"ה.
Origin:
<Corfu?> (I). <Spain or Portugal> (II)
Provenance:
Palatine collection, Fondo Fuggeriana ebr. 139

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. 169-170.

Parts of this manuscript

1r-5r

סוד ה' ליריאיו ובריתו להודיעם

Date:
Late 14th century
Dated Mss:
1394
Overview:
Manuscript I (ff. 1-14, <1>, 15-22)
Locus:
1r-5r
Title:
סוד ה' ליריאיו ובריתו להודיעם
Supplied title:
Sod Adonai li-Yereav
Summary:
Sod Adonai li-Yereav preceded by a diagram of the ten Sefirot
Incipit text:
הספירה הראשונה נקראת כתר היא השגה שאין לה סוף ונקראת ראש הלבן
General note:
1v-5r: Anonymous commentary on the ten Sefirot. On f. 1r a diagram of the ten Sefirot ציור עשר ספירות בכלל. and Cf. G. Scholem, מפתח לפירושים על עשר ספירות "KS", x (1933/4), p. 509, no. 101.
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. 170.

5v-21v

Avraham ben Alexander, כתר שם טוב

Date:
Late 14th century
Dated Mss:
1394
Overview:
Manuscript I (ff. 1-14, <1>, 15-22)
Locus:
5v-21v
Author:
Avraham ben Alexander, di Köln, sec. XIII [internal]
Title:
כתר שם טוב
Supplied title:
Keter Shem Tov
Summary:
Keter Shem Tov with a supplement
Incipit text:
אור זרוע לצדיק ולישרי לב שמחה זהו ר' עקיבה בסופי התיבות (f. 20v) Supplement
General note:
Kabbalistic work on the Divine Names by Abraham b. Alexander (Axelrod) of Cologne. and At the end (ff. 20v-21v) a supplement not found in the printed editions זה מצאתי תוספת מכתר שם טוב וכתבתיו הנה.
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. 170.

23r-44v

Daṿid ben Yedaʿyah ראשון טלה ביכור ביד שבר שכור

Date:
Early 15th century
Beginning date:
1401
Ending date:
1425
Overview:
Manuscript II (ff. 23-44)
Locus:
23r-44v
Author:
Daṿid ben Yedaʿyah [internal]
Title:
ראשון טלה ביכור ביד שבר שכור
Supplied title:
Poem for a wedding
General note:
Poem for a wedding by David b. Jedidiah found inscribed on a lintel of a synagogue in Toledo. and According to other sources it was found in synagogues in Florence (MS Vat. ebr. 105,6) or Arles (MS Parma, Biblioteca Palatina Parm. 2557).
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. 170.