Ilanot-Portal manuscript view - Jewish Theological Seminary, MS K105

Title: The Magnificent Parchment - New York, Jewish Theological Seminary, MS K105
Manuscript name: Jewish Theological Seminary, MS K105
Summary: 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 Byzantine background, according to the paleographical assessment of Dr. Emma Abate. Only one Magnificent Parchment (London, BL, MS Or. 6465 Scroll © The British Library Board) carries a colophon, dating it to 1556. The original Magnificent Parchment was likely crafted ca. 1500 in northern Italy. This family of "luxury" manuscripts is distinguished by its grand scale, its graphical richness, and its 33,000 word anthological text. The JTS K105 fragment preserves the uppermost parchment sheet of the original rotulus. In sefirotic terms, therefore, we see Keter through Binah of the central kabbalistic tree. Unlike other witnesses, K105 figures Ein Sof within a black crescent hovering above a regal crown that sits upon Keter; all others frame Ein Sof within an eye.
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Support material: Parchment
Form: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300028629
Identifier: MS K105
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Repository: Jewish Theological Seminary Library
Country: http://ontologi.es/place/US
Settlement: New York

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