Warsaw, Jewish Historical Institute, Ms. 293
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Identifiers and Titles
IdentifierWarsaw (Poland), Library of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute: Ms. 293
Alternative IdentifiersLeipzig (Austria), Catalogue Schwarz, Austrian Libraries: 271
Vienna (Austria), Jewish Community of Vienna Library: VI 20
Primary Manuscript TitlesZacuto Ilan
Alternative Manuscript TitlesWarsaw, Jewish Historical Institute, Ms. 293
NLI ID990001177810205171
Manuscript History
Origin
CreatorHฬฃayyim ben Joseph Vital ๐๏ธSearch for Ilanot by this Creator
ContributorsMoses ben Mordecai Zacuto (Annotator)
Rafael Moreno (Scribe)
Date Information1649
Provenance
Provenance Informationืืคื ืื ื"ื ืืื ื ืืงืืื VI 20 (ืงืืืื ืฉืืืืจืฅ 271).
OwnerLibrary of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute (current owner) ๐๏ธSearch for Ilanot by this Owner
Provenance PlacesWarsaw (Poland)
OwnerJewish Community of Vienna Library (former owner) ๐๏ธSearch for Ilanot by this Owner
Provenance PlacesVienna (Austria)
Physical Description
MaterialPaper ๐Refers generally to all types of thin matted or felted sheets or webs of fiber formed and dried on a fine screen from a pulpy water suspension. The fibers may be animal, such as hair, silk or wool, or mineral, such as asbestos, or synthetic. However most paper is made from cellulosic plant fiber, such as from wood pulp, grass, cotton, linen, and straw. ๐๏ธSearch for Ilanot with this Material
Number of Pages179
Hand DescriptionOriental
Languages Used
Main LanguageRabbinic Hebrew ๐https://ilanot.org/voc/languages/he-x-rabbinic ๐๏ธSearch for Ilanot with this Language
Content Description
SummaryThis seventeenth-century witness, formerly preserved in the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, served as the master copy of แธคayyim Vitalโs Oแบrot แธคayyim. It is a document of exceptional historical significance, as it contains the autograph marginalia and diagrams of R. Moses Zacuto (the RaMaZ). In an important note, Zacuto argues that several schematic arrays of the sefirotic configuration rejected by Moses Cordovero in his Pardes Rimonim were, in fact, authentic visualizations of specific parแบufimโmost notably Arikh Anpinโof which Cordovero was unaware. To substantiate this transvaluation of classical forms, Zacuto appended his own ilan of Arikh Anpin to the manuscript. This witness became the basis for Zacutoโs effort to distribute Oแบrot แธคayyim, a project that eventually produced over eighty copies. Although the physical manuscript was stolen from the Institute several decades ago, its contents remain accessible via microfilm.
ColophonOn the Title Page: "ืฉื ืช ื'ืฉ'ืง'ื', ืืืชืืืช ืืื ืืฆืขืืจ ืจืคืื ืืืจื ื ืืฆ"ื"
Further Information
Research LiteratureYosef Avivi, Kabbalat ha-Ari (Jerusalem: 2008), volume 2, 727โ728.
J. H. Chajes, The Kabbalistic Tree (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022), 381โ382.
Arthur Zacharias Schwarz, Die hebraeischen Handschriften in Oesterreich (Leipzig: 1931), number 271.
J. H. Chajes, The Kabbalistic Tree (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022), 381โ382.
Arthur Zacharias Schwarz, Die hebraeischen Handschriften in Oesterreich (Leipzig: 1931), number 271.
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EditorsJosef H. Chajes ๐๏ธSearch for Ilanot Editions with this Editor or Contributor
Eliezer Baumgarten ๐๏ธSearch for Ilanot Editions with this Editor or Contributor
Maximilian de Moliรจre ๐๏ธSearch for Ilanot Editions with this Editor or Contributor
PublisherThe Ilanot Project, University of Haifa
University of Gรถttingen
Publication Date2025-02-11
FunderVolkswagen Stiftung Niedersรคchsisches Vorab - Research Cooperation Lower Saxony โ Israel โ Maps of God - Building a Portal to Visual Kabbalah (Digital Humanities)
The Israel Science Foundationโ No. 1568/18 (Art, Kabbalah, and Cultural Capital: The Making and Meaning of a Renaissance Cosmographic Masterpiece)
Edition Licencehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0
This resource is published under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.
This resource is published under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.
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