- Shelfmark:
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Scroll F.11.18, Recto
Trinity College Library, Cambridge, England - Dimensions:
- 2800 × 350 cm
- Form:
- rotulus
- Handwriting:
- Square and Sephardic Semi-cursive
- Main Language:
- Rabbinic Hebrew
- Former Shelfmark:
- 112, Catalogue Loewe, Trinity College, Cambridge, England
- About the MS:
- This ilan makes a striking visual impression, beginning with an anthropomorphic head of Adam Kadmon and concluding with an elegant engraving of Jerusalem. The entire scroll is framed on all four margins by kabbalistic poems: "El Mistater" by Abraham Maimon and "Or Ganuz" by Moses Zacuto. Typologically, the Trinity Scroll consists of P and Z modules, with the latter featuring a unique textual frame reminiscent of a traditional commentary layout. However, the framing text is not a commentary on the diagram itself but rather Kizur Olam ha-Tikkun (Abridged World of Rectification) by Joseph Solomon Delmedigo. Originally intended to accompany diagrams in Delmedigo's Novelot Hokhmah (1631), this text provides a linear narrative of the structural dynamics and the enrobing process in the World of Tikkun. While the ilan's imagery and the framing text stem from different Lurianic traditions—the latter reflecting the Saruqian influence prevalent in Delmedigo’s sources—they function together to offer a comprehensive visualization and verbal account of the emanation process.
- Type:
- Great Tree, Lurianic
- Research Literature:
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- H. Loewe, Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Hebrew Character Collected and Bequeathed to Trinity College Library by the Late William Aldis Wright (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1926), no. 112. J. H. Chajes, The Kabbalistic Tree (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022), 145–149.
- NLI Record:
- NLI Record
- Hebrew Text:
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- Translation:
- {translation}
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