General

Title

Jerusalem (Israel), The National Library of Israel: Ms. Heb. 963=8

Manuscript name

Great Tree

Summary

A Great Tree of the PaZP7 type, produced in Ashkenaz in the late eighteenth century. This specific modular configuration consists of an abridged version of the Poppers (Pa) module—covering emanation up to the head of Arikh Anpin—into which a complete Zacuto-Ẓemaḥ (Z) ilan has been spliced, followed by the continuation of the Poppers module (P7). The manuscript exhibits skillful scribal execution, featuring doubled lines for diagrammatic elements and a combination of Ashurite square script and Ashkenazi semicursive. It contains the "requires further consideration" (ẓarikh ‘iyyun) gloss characteristic of the Poppers family.

Support material

parchment

Main language

Rabbinic Hebrew

Hand description

Ashkenazic

Identifier

Ms. Heb. 963=8

NLI identifier

990025862460205171

Repository

The National Library of Israel

Country

Israel

Settlement

Jerusalem

Research literature

J. H. Chajes, The Kabbalistic Tree (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2022), 204–205, 390.

Creation time

Date

late 18th century