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The Magnificent Parchment - MS Hunt. Add. D
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript3r0gg
Oxford, MS Hunt. Add. D. is a particularly fine, early, and well-preserved witness of a family of large manuscript rotuli…
The Magnificent Parchment - Private Collection, Tel Aviv-London
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript3vr9d
This witness of the Magnificent Parchment, found today in an anonymous private collection, is a fine, early, and well-preserved …
The Grand Venetian Parchment of R. Elijah Menaḥem Ḥalfan and R. Abraham Ṣarfati
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript3vsh6
The Grand Venetian Parchment of R. Elijah Menaḥem Ḥalfan and R. Abraham Ṣarfati was crafted as a collaborative project of…
Brescia - Biblioteca Queriniana - MS L FI 11
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript3vxth
The Brescia parchment was likely written by a Spanish scribe around the late fourteenth century. The text has been attrib…
Vatican City, BAV, MS Vat.ebr. 530 III
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript3vz92
The striking ilan preserved in the Vatican library exhibits a top edge cut in a manner that retains the natural contours …
The Magnificent Parchment - Leeds University Library, MS Roth 418
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript3w2bx
Leeds University Library, MS Roth 418 preserves a fragment of a family of large manuscript rotuli ("ilanot") to which we …
Gross Family Collection Trust 083.011.002
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript3w9wh
This seventeenth-century Italian copy of a classical ilan that goes back to the fourteenth century …
München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod.hebr. 119
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript3w6sw
This miniaturized ilan drafted in semicursive script by an Italian scribe ca. 1500 is in the back binding of a …
München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod.hebr. 448
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript3wbt2
Cod.hebr. 448 is a single parchment sheet classical ilan. According to Maximilian de Molière, it was likely copied by …
Vatican City, BAV, MS Vat.ebr. Borg.ebr. 21 Ilan
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript3wbfk
This seventeenth-century Italian copy of a classical ilan that goes back to the fourteenth century …
The Magnificent Parchment - MS Or. 6465 Scroll
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript3whfc
London, BL, MS Or. 6465 Scroll © The British Library Board is a well-preserved witness of the family of large manuscript rotuli …
The Klau Library Scrolls 65.1
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript3wpfr
Cincinnati, Hebrew Union College, The Klau Library Scrolls 65.1 appears to be the earliest witness of a family of large manuscript rotuli ("ilanot") …
Jewish Theological Seminary, MS K105
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript3wgnt
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 …
Jerusalem, National Library of Israel MS 1257
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript40qx1
This ilan was crafted by R. Joshua ben David (active early-seventeenth-century), a student of R. Samuel Barzani, the preeminent rabbinic scholar of K…
Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Hunt. Add. E
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript40rgm
Early in the sixteenth century, an old copy of the “Great Parchment” was acquired by the Italian humanist and philosopher…
Cincinnati, HUC, Klau Scrolls 69
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript40zv1
The Grupa Ilan, a Great Tree of type KPaZP7, is the earliest known Great Tree to reach us that begins with the first four frames of Knorr’s original …
Gross Family Collection Trust 083.011.002
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript41v7t.0
This seventeenth-century Italian copy of a classical ilan that goes back to the fourteenth century …
Uppsala University Library, MS O Hebr 33:3
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript41000
This extraordinary Magnificent Parchment was donated to the Uppsala University Library in 1705 by Nicolas Bergius (1658-1706). The first mention of t…
Library of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, Ms. 293
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript48n1r
Moscow, RSL, Ms. Guenzburg 53
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript41009
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Jerusalem, National Library of Israel, Ms. Heb. 4°9795 (Module P)
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript48z3g
This ilan, copied around 1700 by a scribe of German or Bohemian origin, is one of only two known copies that exclusively …
Amsterdam, Ets Haim – Livraria Montezinos, Ms. 47 E 53
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript49wnx
Cambridge Trinity College Scroll - - Cambridge, Trinity College, F.11.18
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript49wqm
Great Tree - - Jerusalem, National Library of Israel, Ms. Heb. 4°9791
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript49wr7
Great Tree – KPZW.
Coppio Ilan - - Jerusalem, National Library of Israel, Ms. Heb. 4°9790
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript49wv1
Great Tree - - Jerusalem, National Library of Israel, Ms. Heb. 4°9787
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript49wv6
Great Tree - - Jerusalem, National Library of Israel, Ms. Heb. 4°9800
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript49wwr
Great Tree type PZW
Mantova, Jewish Community of Mantua, Ms. ebr. 108
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript49zxj
Mantova, Jewish Community of Mantua, Ms. ebr. 51
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript49zzg
Meir Benayahu Collection, Jerusalem, Ilan
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript4b0m6.0
Bavarian State Library, Munich, Cod.hebr. 449
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript4b0wf
Perlhefter’s Poppers Ilan - - Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, University of California, Berkeley, acc. no. 67.1.11.3
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript4b0xk
Jewish Museum in Prague, Ms. 69
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript4b0xs
Backmatter foldout in Ḥayyim Vital, ‘Eẓ Ḥayyim (Poppers ed.).
National Library of Israel, Ms. Heb. 4°9794
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript4b0wn
ʿEẓ Ḥayyim - - Uppsala, University Library, O Hebr. 27
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript4b23m
Gross Family Collection Trust, Tel Aviv, Israel Ms. GR.011.012
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript4b4q7
Copy of ʻEtz Ḥayyim by Ḥayyim ben Joseph Vital produced in 1729, richly decorated and including a fold-out ilan sewn at the back: the Ilan of Expande…
Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Ms. S 436
ID: https://ilanot.org/resource/item/manuscript4b4sj
Kabbalistic scroll, written in black ink.
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About Maps of God
"Maps of God" (MoG) is the flagship digital humanities initiative of the Ilanot Project, dedicated to the research of Jewish kabbalistic diagrams known as ilanot ("trees," being intricately inscribed parchment scrolls dedicated to mapping the divine realm).
The MoG platform presents scientific editions of the great ilanot using an innovative linked-data approach to enable scholars and laypeople to explore these fascinating artifacts for the first time.
Please note: This site was created for internal use and is open to the general public as a courtesy. The development and implementation of the feature-rich end-user site is currently underway and is expected to be completed by 2024.
Development funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and basic research funded by Israel Science Foundation Personal Grant 1568/18.