General

Title

Amsterdam, Ets Haim Library: 47 E 53

Manuscript name

Great Tree

Summary

This highly artistic ilan in the collection of the Ets Haim Library in Amsterdam is a rare complete rotulus belonging to the KPaZP7 family of Great Trees. The diagram presents the spliced integration of Poppers and Ẓemaḥ, a structural typology shared with the Cambridge Trinity Scroll (Cambridge, Trinity College, Scroll F.11.18.). The Ets Haim ilan is closely related to "The Grupa Ilan" (Cincinnati, HUC, Klau Library, Scrolls 69) as both witnesses feature the same anomalous reordering of the K component. However, the scribe of the Amsterdam ilan prioritized aesthetic elegance over textual exhaustiveness, opting to omit technical glosses such as the "requires further consideration" gloss. The ilan is distinguished by its superior graphic execution, offering a stunning visual enhancement of the Lurianic cosmological structure.

Support material

parchment

Main language

Rabbinic Hebrew

Identifier

47 E 53

NLI identifier

990024935190205171

Repository

Ets Haim Library

Country

Netherlands

Settlement

Amsterdam

Research literature

Fuks, L., and R. G. Mansfeld-Fuks. Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Ets Haim / Livraria Montezinos Sephardic Community of Amsterdam. Hebrew & Judaic Manuscripts in Amsterdam Public Collections 2. Leiden: Brill, 1975 J. H. Chajes, The Kabbalistic Tree (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022), 219, 221.

Creation time

Date

18th century