- Shelfmark:
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Ms. Opp. 128, Recto
The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Oxford, England - Dimensions:
- 256 × 32 cm
- Material:
- paper
- Form:
- rotulus
- Handwriting:
- Ashkenazic and various hands.
- Main Language:
- Rabbinic Hebrew
- Former Shelfmark:
- Ms. Opp. 905, The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
- About the MS:
- This mid-seventeenth-century Great Tree is preserved as a paper foldout in the front matter of an Ashkenazi kabbalistic miscellany. The ilan precedes Jacob Ẓemaḥ’s commentary on the Idra Rabba. It belongs to a subset of approximately twenty percent of Great Trees that feature Ẓemaḥ’s visualization of the enrobings (the Z14 module) without the accompaniment of Moses Zacuto’s Arikh diagram (Z13). The practice of including such ambitious diagrams as foldouts at the beginning or end of a codex likely took inspiration from the precedent set by Ḥayyim Vital, who incorporated complex opening diagrams into his own works.
- Type:
- Great Tree, Lurianic
- Research Literature:
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- Adolf Neubauer, Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1886). J. H. Chajes, The Kabbalistic Tree (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2022), 93–95, 383, 400.
- NLI Record:
- NLI Record
- Hebrew Text:
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- Translation:
- {translation}
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