Primary Manuscript TitlesGrand Venetian Parchment
היריעה הוונציאנית המופלאה
Alternative Manuscript TitlesThe Halfan-Sarfati Ilan
אילן חלפן-צרפתי
Origin
ContributorsElijah Menaḥem Ḥalfan (Adapter, Author of afterword, colophon, etc., Creator, Editor of compilation, Scribe) Abraham Ṣarfati (Adapter, Author of afterword, colophon, etc., Editor of compilation)
Date1533 (certainty: high)
Date Informationרצ"ג (1533).
Creation Place
Creation Settlement Information (English)Venice
Creation Country Information (English)Italy
Provenance
Owner InformationBiblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Current or Former Ownercurrent
Provenance Place
Provenance Settlement Information (English)Florence
Provenance Country Information (English)Italy
Materialparchment
Formsheet
Support Description (English)six parchment sections
Layout (English)Most content on recto; verso contains additional diagram visualization of "side" of evil and the colophons.
Sheets per Surface (English)six parchment sections
Dimensions
Width94 cm
Height122 cm
Hand Description
Hand Description (English)Italian
Research LiteratureAntonio Maria Biscioni, ed., Bibliothecae Ebraicae Graecae Florentinae sive Bibliothecae Mediceo-Laurentianae, vol. 2 (Florentiae, 1757).
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J. H. Chajes, The Kabbalistic Tree (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2022), 51–59.
Yosef Kaplan, ed., The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5, The Early Modern Era, 1500–1750 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017).
Fabrizio Lelli, “L’albero sefirotico di Eliyyà Menaḥem ben Abba Mari Halfan (Ms. Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 44.18),” Rinascimento 48 (2008): 271–290.
Fabrizio Lelli, “Ricezione e interpretazione della Cabbalà nel pensiero di Eliyyà Menaḥem Halfan,” Rivista di Storia e Letteratura Religiosa 47, no. 3 (2011): 547–572.
Aldo Rossi, Da Dante a Leonardo: Un percorso di originali, Biblioteche e archivi 4 (Florence: Edizioni del Galluzzo; SISMEL, 1999).
Isaiah Sonne, “I dati biografici contenuti negli scritti di Shelomoh Molkho riesaminati alla luce di un nuovo documento,” Annuario di studi storici 1 (1934): 183–204.
Notes (Hebrew)דף גדול מאד ובו אילן הספירות עם פרוש (ראה: ג' שלום, קרית ספר י', עמ' 511 מס' 119) ומסביבו באור מונחים בקבלה, המחשת עניני קבלה בציורים, "סוד היכלות של טומאה" ורשימות מאת "אברהם בן הנ"ר יצחק הקני"ט זצ"ל צרפתי" ותלמידו המעתיק.