Oxford (England), The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford: Ms. Opp. 128
About the Ilan
TextGrid URI of the Editiontextgrid:48rm3
FamiliesGreat Tree (Lurianic) ๐๏ธSearch for Ilanot in this Family
Surfaces of the Ilan
Recto
About the Manuscript
Identifiers and Titles
IdentifierOxford (England), The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford: Ms. Opp. 128
Alternative IdentifiersOxford (England), Catalogue Neubauer: 1755
Oxford (England), The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford: Ms. Opp. 905
Primary Manuscript TitlesGreat Tree
Alternative Manuscript TitlesOxford, BL, Ms. Opp. 128
NLI ID990000662790205171
Manuscript History
Origin
Date1600 - 1799
Date Informationmid-17th century
Provenance
Provenance InformationOwnership note (at the head of the manuscript): "ืืฉื ืืื"ื ... ืฉืืื ื"ืฅ ืืืืจืื".
OwnerMoses son of Solomon Katz of Orav (former owner)
OwnerThe Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (current owner)
Provenance PlacesOxford (England)
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
FormRotulus ๐A roll of parchment or paper unrolled vertically for reading. ๐๏ธSearch for Ilanot with this Form
Number of Pages159
Dimensions Description256 ร 32
Hand DescriptionAshkenazic and various hands.
Languages Used
Main LanguageRabbinic Hebrew ๐https://ilanot.org/voc/languages/he-x-rabbinic ๐๏ธSearch for Ilanot with this Language
Content Description
SummaryThis mid-seventeenth-century Great Tree is preserved as a paper foldout in the front matter of an Ashkenazi kabbalistic miscellany. The ilan precedes Jacob แบemaแธฅโs commentary on the Idra Rabba. It belongs to a subset of approximately twenty percent of Great Trees that feature แบemaแธฅโs visualization of the enrobings (the Z14 module) without the accompaniment of Moses Zacutoโs Arikh diagram (Z13). The practice of including such ambitious diagrams as foldouts at the beginning or end of a codex likely took inspiration from the precedent set by แธคayyim Vital, who incorporated complex opening diagrams into his own works.
Further Information
Research LiteratureAdolf Neubauer, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1886).
J. H. Chajes, The Kabbalistic Tree (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2022), 93โ95, 383, 400.
J. H. Chajes, The Kabbalistic Tree (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2022), 93โ95, 383, 400.
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