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The Magnificent Parchment - MS Hunt. Add. D

Oxford, MS Hunt. Add. D. is a particularly fine, early, and well-preserved witness of a family of large manuscript rotuli ("ilanot") to which we have given the name "The Magnificent Parchment." Only one witness ...

The Magnificent Parchment - Private Collection, Tel Aviv-London

This witness of the Magnificent Parchment, found today in an anonymous private collection, is a fine, early, and well-preserved paper copy of a family of large manuscript rotuli ("ilanot") to which we have given the name "The Magnificent ...

The Grand Venetian Parchment of R. Elijah Menaḥem Ḥalfan and R. Abraham Ṣarfati

The Grand Venetian Parchment of R. Elijah Menaḥem Ḥalfan and R. Abraham Ṣarfati was crafted as a collaborative project of these two kabbalists in 1533.

Vatican City, BAV, MS Vat.ebr. Borg.ebr. 21 Ilan

This seventeenth-century Italian copy of a classical ilan that goes back to the fourteenth century demonstrates the ongoing relevance of such artifacts even in an era typically presumed to have been dominated by ...

The Magnificent Parchment - Leeds University Library, MS Roth 418

Leeds University Library, MS Roth 418 preserves a fragment of a family of large manuscript rotuli ("ilanot") to which we have given the name "The Magnificent Parchment." The fascinating fragment shows a work in ...

Brescia - Biblioteca Queriniana - MS L FI 11

The Brescia parchment was likely written by a Spanish scribe around the late fourteenth century. The text has been attributed to Rabbi Joseph Gikatilla (1248–ca. 1305). It deploys a distinctive rota-augmented ...

Vatican City, BAV, MS Vat.ebr. 530 III

The striking ilan preserved in the Vatican library exhibits a top edge cut in a manner that retains the natural contours of the animal skin while suggesting something like a peaked roof. According to the colophon on ...

München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod.hebr. 448

Cod.hebr. 448 is a single parchment sheet classical ilan. According to Maximilian de Molière, it was likely copied by Francesco Parnas for Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter around 1537. During that period, Parnas was ...

München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod.hebr. 119

This miniaturized ilan drafted in semicursive script by an Italian scribe ca. 1500 is in the back binding of a miscellany now in Munich: Munich, BSB, Cod.hebr. 119, fols. 24b–25a. The classical parchment behind it is ...

Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Hunt. Add. E

Early in the sixteenth century, an old copy of the “Great Parchment” was acquired by the Italian humanist and philosopher Cardinal Egidio da Viterbo (1472–1532). The text it bore was the idiosyncratic treatise on the ...

Gross Family Collection Trust 083.011.002

This seventeenth-century Italian copy of a classical ilan that goes back to the fourteenth century demonstrates the ongoing relevance of such artifacts even in an era typically presumed to have been dominated by ...

The Klau Library Scrolls 65.1

Cincinnati, Hebrew Union College, The Klau Library Scrolls 65.1 appears to be the earliest witness of a family of large manuscript rotuli ("ilanot") to which we have given the name "The Magnificent Parchment." Only one witness (London, BL, MS Or. 6465 Scroll © The British Library Board) carries a ...

The Magnificent Parchment - MS Or. 6465 Scroll

London, BL, MS Or. 6465 Scroll © The British Library Board is a well-preserved witness of the family of large manuscript rotuli ("ilanot") to which we have given the name "The Magnificent Parchment." It was copied by the Polish kabbalist ...

Jewish Theological Seminary, MS K105

Jewish Theological Seminary Library MS K105 is a fragment of a very well-executed witness that belongs to a manuscript family of large rotuli ilanot to which we have given the name "The Magnificent Parchment." It was likely drafted in the sixteenth century by an Italian copyist, perhaps with some ...

Jerusalem, National Library of Israel MS 1257

This ilan was crafted by R. Joshua ben David (active early-seventeenth-century), a student of R. Samuel Barzani, the preeminent rabbinic scholar of Kurdistan in the period. The ilan was modeled upon the notion of the “Four Worlds” of Aẓilut, Beriah, Yeẓirah, and ‘Assiyah, which was commonplace in ...

Uppsala University Library, MS O Hebr 33:3

This extraordinary Magnificent Parchment was donated to the Uppsala University Library in 1705 by Nicolas Bergius (1658-1706). The first mention of the item at the Uppsala University Library is a handwritten inventory list from ca 1730: "Tabula Sephirotica membr.[anea] ex donat.[ione] D.[omini] ...

Cincinnati, HUC, Klau Scrolls 69

The Grupa Ilan, a Great Tree of type KPaZP7, is the earliest known Great Tree to reach us that begins with the first four frames of Knorr’s original Saruqian ilan (Kabbala denudata I, Apparatus IV, figs. 8–11). K is followed by PaZP7, the spliced integration of Poppers and Ẓemaḥ. This ilan also ...

Oxford Ms Opp 128

Moscow, RSL, Ms. Guenzburg 53

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Library of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, Ms. 293

Jerusalem, National Library of Israel, Ms. Heb. 4°9795 (Module P)

This ilan, copied around 1700 by a scribe of German or Bohemian origin, is one of only two known copies that exclusively preserve Meir Poppers’ original ilan. The second, copied by Behr Eibeschütz Perlhefter (ca. ...

Amsterdam, Ets Haim – Livraria Montezinos, Ms. 47 E 53

Cambridge Trinity College Scroll - - Cambridge, Trinity College, F.11.18

Great Tree - Jerusalem, National Library of Israel, Ms. Heb. 4°9791

A Great Tree of the KPZWy type. This ilan was created in Eastern Europe in the late 18th century. The ilan was executed with stylistic precision and features a variety of scripts and decorative elements recalling the ilan of the Chabad Library (Megillah 4902ל). Unlike the ...

Coppio Ilan - - Jerusalem, National Library of Israel, Ms. Heb. 4°9790

This rotulus is a (non-autograph) copy of Coppio's ilan and opens with the phrase “Said the compiler […] of blessed memory.” Like its source, it is a variation of Great Tree type VPaZW, featuring distinctive changes and additions. The rotulus is divided into two columns. ...

The Tree of Holiness - Jerusalem, National Library of Israel, Ms. Heb. 4°9787

This ilan, whose author is unknown, is labelled “The Ilan of Holiness” in the title above the Keter of Adam Kadmon, and it is the smallest among the three extant ilanot of this type. The other two ilanot are Cincinnati, HUC, Klau Scrolls 65.2, and a rotulus in the Katsh family collection. ...

Great Tree - Jerusalem, National Library of Israel, Ms. Heb. 4°9800

The graphical distinctiveness of this elegant paper ilan is in the precise, distinctive micrography that establish the facial features of Adam Kadmon and Arikh Anpin. The opening of this ilan resembles the openings of many ilan amulets, which may indicate a common origin.

Mantova, Jewish Community of Mantua, Ms. ebr. 108

Mantova, Jewish Community of Mantua, Ms. ebr. 51

Meir Benayahu Collection, Jerusalem, Ilan

Bavarian State Library, Munich, Cod.hebr. 449

The Hammerschlag Poppers – National Library of Israel, Ms. Heb. 4°9794

This ilan is a slightly modified copy of the original Meir Poppers ilan. Were it a component in a Great Tree, it would be classified as type “Pu.” The copy was made by Nathan (Nosen) Neta Hammerschlag, whose distinctive artistic style is immediately apparent from its ...

Perlhefter’s Poppers Ilan - - Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, University of California, Berkeley, acc. no. 67.1.11.3

Jewish Museum in Prague, Ms. 69

Backmatter foldout in Ḥayyim Vital, ‘Eẓ Ḥayyim (Poppers ed.).

ʿEẓ Ḥayyim - - Uppsala, University Library, O Hebr. 27

Gross Family Collection Trust, Tel Aviv, Israel Ms. GR.011.012

Copy of ʻEtz Ḥayyim by Ḥayyim ben Joseph Vital produced in 1729, richly decorated and including a fold-out ilan sewn at the back: the Ilan of Expanded Divine Names.

Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Ms. S 436

Kabbalistic scroll, written in black ink.

Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Ms. D 50

The manuscript contains binding fragments; also of Tosafot to tractate Ketubbot 29b–31a.

Coppio Amulet Scroll – National Library of Israel, Ms. Heb. 9788°4

This goatskin ilan amulet was likely created in Jerusalem by the scribe Nissim Sejera and is an abridged adaptation of Isaac Coppio's two column ilan (NLI, Ms. Heb. 4°9790). The adaptation constitutes a significant reduction of the original from which much text has also been removed. ...

National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Ms. Heb. 4° 9810

This ilan amulet (of the PaZW type) is almost identical to NLI, Ms. Heb. 4°9813 in terms of content, but was executed more skillfully.

Jerusalem, National Library of Israel, Ms. Heb. 4° 9812

An ilan amulet based on the PaZW model, in the style of NLI, Ms. Heb. 4°9805. This ilan features significant textual additions, particularly in the lower section of the Pa component. Despite the amuletic addendum’s directive to keep it sealed within its silver case, it ...

Great Tree – Jerusalem, National Library of Israel, Ms. Heb. 4° 9804

A Great Tree of the PaZP7 type + framed Z. This enigmatic ilan is distinguished principally for having preserved the work-in-progress of its copyist. It is not merely unfinished, though; it seems that the scribe had not entirely worked out his ...

Chabad Library Scroll - - New York, Library of Agudas Chassidei Chabad, Ms. Megillah 4902 ל

Jerusalem, National Library of Israel, Ms. Heb. 4°200.4

Jerusalem, National Library of Israel, Ms. Heb. 8°963

Gross Family Collection Trust 083.011.002

This seventeenth-century Italian copy of a classical ilan that goes back to the fourteenth century demonstrates the ongoing relevance of such artifacts even in an era typically presumed to have been dominated by ...