• Ms. 504




    Categories

    Kabbalah
    Manuscript

    [Cabalistic miscellany]


    Manuscript ID:
    Ms. 504

    Place:
    [unknown]

    Date:
    not before 1617

    Description:
    ink on paper; 310 leaves (17 x 13 cm); Italo-Sephardi and Italian cursive Hebrew characters

    Former Owner:
    Kauffmann (22)

    Subject:
    Kabbalah


    The compendium of cabalistic texts includes Jacob Ẓemaḥ’s Sefer Nagid u-metsaṿeh (leaves 1r-158v); Leḥem min ha-shamayim (ascribed to Jacob Ẓemaḥ, leaves 159r-199v); Sefer Toledot ha-Ari (leaves 200r-223v); a miscellany by Leone Modena (leaves 224r-242v); Sa’adia Gaon’s She’elot u-teshuvot (leaf 262v), and other anonymous texts (prescriptions, recipes, instructions on how to write amulets (including in Knottenschrift), and goralot).


    Manuscript Link:
    https://huc.on.worldcat.org/oclc/959356972


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