General

Title

Munich (Germany), Bavarian State Library: Cod.hebr. 448

Manuscript name

Classical ilan

Summary

Cod. hebr. 448 is a single parchment sheet classical ilan. According to Maximilian de Molière, it was likely copied by Francesco Parnas for Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter around 1537. During that period, Parnas was occupied with copying a number of kabbalistic manuscripts for Widmanstetter, including zoharic materials (Cod. hebr. 217-219). The ilan is a relatively straight-forward copy of a type that by then had been in circulation for at least a century. Cod.hebr. 448 is also of the same family as the classical ilan that Knorr von Rosenroth included in the in the second apparatus of the first volume of “Kabbala denudata” under the title “Clavis sublimioris Kabbalae, de ordine divinorum Nominum pro resolutione difficiliorum Aenigmatum Libri Sohar”.

Support material

parchment

Main language

Rabbinic Hebrew

Hand description

Ashkenazic

Identifier

Cod.hebr. 448

NLI identifier

990001284980205171

Repository

Bavarian State Library

Country

Germany

Settlement

Munich

Research literature

J. H. Chajes, The Kabbalistic Tree (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2022), 372, 386. Ernst Roth, Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, vol. 6, pt. 2, Hebräische Handschriften (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1965), no. 356. De Molière, Maximilian. Confronting Kabbalah: Studies in the Christian Hebraist Library of Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter. Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 36. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pages 114, 291–292, 531–532.

Creation time

Date

ca. 1537