New York, JTS, Ms. 2187 64rVital's Circles

New York, JTS, Ms. 2187 64rVital's Circles

Shelfmark:
2187, 64r
Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, USA
Date of Creation:
1720
Form:
codex
About the MS:
This 1720 manuscript was copied in Morocco by the itinerant scribe Isaac Coppio. It contains the work Me‘arat sdeh ha-makhpelah by Moses ibn Ẓur, a poetic paraphrase of Ḥayyim Vital’s Oẓrot Ḥayyim. In the front matter of the codex, Coppio integrated Element V. V appears here as a diagrammatic duo consisting of two complementary synoptic circle diagrams that map the Lurianic cosmological structure.
Type:
Vital's Circles, Lurianic
NLI Record:
NLI Record