Obj. ID: 21106
Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts Fugger's Twelfth Miscellany on Kabbalah, Venice, 1552
© BSB, Photographer: Unknown,
Summary and Remarks
Meir appears in BSB Cod.hebr. 7, 8, 11, 15, 23, 26, 27, 29, 31, 39, 44, 47, 49, 50, 54, 56, 58;
Yaakov ben Hayyim in BSB Cod.hebr. 33, 64; and Eliezer in BSB Cod.hebr. 39, 45, 55, 60, 64, 65, 66.
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Name/Title
Fugger's Twelfth Venetian Miscellany on Kabbalah | Unknown
Object Detail
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Date
1552
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Material / Technique
Paper, 1 + 384 + 1 leaves.
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Measurements
Full page: (339-340) x (237-240) mm.
Text space: Meir: (269-271) x (145-147) mm.
Yaakov ben Hayyim: (236-240) x (137-138) mm.
Eliezer: (240-241) x (142-144) mm.
Text space: Meir: (269-271) x (145-147) mm.
Yaakov ben Hayyim: (236-240) x (137-138) mm.
Eliezer: (240-241) x (142-144) mm.
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Condition
Good. Apparently the manuscript was not used.
Extant
Documented by CJA
Surveyed by CJA
Present Usage
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Condition of Building Fabric
Architectural Significance type
Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Urban significance
Significance Rating
1
Ornamentation
Custom
Contents
1. Hayy bin Yaqdhan (חי בן יקטן) by Abu Bakr ibn Tufayl (fols. 1-176v) in an anonymous translation with
commentary by Moses Narboni, and with comments by Yohanan Alemanno integrated into the text
(Idel 1978:313): beginsאמר משה בן יהושע (Steinschneider 1893:365).
2. Super commentary on the Averroes' Compendium of Aristotle's De caelo et mundo by Levi ben
Gershom, Chapter IV (fols. 177-181): beginsכאן כו שידבר בצורות היסודות הארבעה (Steinschneider
1893:127).
3. Or ha-Sekhel (אור השכל; The Light of Mind) by Abraham ben Shmuel Abulafia (fols. 183-231): begins
בהיות המחשבה האנושית קלה מאוד מהשיג (Idel 1976:24 n. 161; Abulafia 2001). Other copies in Munich:
BSB Cod.hebr. 40 (fols. 160-212v) from Fugger's Venetian group, copied from another exemplar; BSB
Cod.hebr. 92 (fols. 31-68), belonged to Egidio da Viterbo and later to Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter.
4. Sodot ve-Likkutim in Kabbalah (סודות ולקוטים, Secrets and Miscellanies) (fols. 233-247): beginsזהו ציור
האלפבית אשר קבל משה. Includes Secrets of the Ten Sefirot, Commentary on the Divine Name of 72 letters
from Sefer Raziel, a part of Sefer ha-Temunah, etc.
5. Keter Shem Tov (כתר שם טוב; The Crown of Shem Tov) by Abraham ben Alexander (Axelrod) of Cologne
(fols. 248v-256v): begins בזאת יבא אהרן אל הקדש פנימה בנפש טהורה ובשפה ברורה. 1st ed. Amsterdam 1810.
Other copies in Munich: BSB Cod.hebr. 56 (fols. 145-151) from Fugger's Venetian group, incomplete;
BSB Cod.hebr. 246 (fols. 49v-55v), belonged to Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter; BSB Cod.hebr. 341
(fols. 188v-191v), belonged to Domenico Grimani and later to Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter.
6. Sodot ve-Likkutim in Kabbalah (fols. 256v-259): begins סוד שבע ברכות. Includes Secret of the Seven
Blessings, Ma'aseh Bereshit (The Procedure of Creation), Merkavah (Chariot) seen by Ezekiel etc. Most
were printed at the end of Moses di Leon's Sefer ha-Mishkal (The Book of Scale) or ha-Nefesh
ha-Hakhamah (The Wise Soul), 1st ed. Basel 1608.
7. Commentary on Sifra, Commentary on Leviticus Rabbah by R. Samuel (fols. 261-384): beginsויקרא אל
משה (Shoshana 1996:III, pp. 14 and 157ff).
Codicology
Scribes
Meir (Scribe A*): fols. 1-181 in brown ink. Yaakov ben Hayyim (Scribe B): fols. 183-259 in brown ink. Eliezer (Scribe C): fols. 261-384 in brown ink. Corrections by each scribe to his own section. * The letters A, B, etc. denote the order of copying by the main scribes and interpolators in this manuscript.
Script
The text is written in semi-cursive Ashkenazi script.
Number of Lines
The text is written in 30 lines per page, mostly in one column.
Ruling
Ruling by stylus: 30 horizontal and 1+1 vertical lines, e.g. fol. 94; sometimes in light brown ink, e.g. fol. 179.
Pricking
None.
Quires
47 quires of 10 and 8 leaves each, except for XXIII6. Quire composition: I8 (1-8); II8 (9-16); III8 (17-24); IV8 (25-32); V8 (33-40); VI8 (41-48); VII8 (49-56); VIII8 (57-64); IX8 (65-72); X8 (73-80); XI8 (81-88); XII8 (89-96); XIII8 (97-104); XIV8 (105-112); XV8 (113-120); XVI8 (121-128); XVII8 (129-136); XVIII8 (137-144); XIX8 (145-152); XX8 (153-160); XXI8 (161-168); XXII8 (169-176); XXIII6 (177-182); XXIV10 (183-192); XXV10 (193-202); XXVI10 (203-212); XXVII10 (213-222); XXVIII10 (223-232); XXIX10 (233-242); XXX10 (243-252); XXXI8 (253-260); XXXII8 (261-268); XXXIII8 (269-276); XXXIV8 (277-284); XXXV8 (285-292); XXXVI8 (293-300); XXXVII8 (301-308); XXXVIII8 (309-316); XXXIX8 (317-324); XL8 (325-332); XLI8 (333-340); XLII8 (341-348); XLIII8 (349-356); XLIV8 (357-364); XLV8 (365-372); XLVI8 (373-380); XLVII8 (381-384).
Catchwords
Catchwords for leaves are written horizontally at the left below the text in semi-cursive script by the text scribe.
Hebrew Numeration
None.
Blank Leaves
Fols. 1v, 181v, 182-182v, 183v, 259v, 260v, 261v, 384v.
Direction/Location
Façade (main)
Endivances
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Location of Apse
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Location of Platform
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Location of Women's Section
Direction Prayer
Direction Toward Jerusalem
Coin
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Colophon
Fol. 181: נשלם המאור חדש ניסן שי"ב לפ"ק/ פה וויניזיאה והתהלה לאל לבדו/ יתברך על כל ברכה ותהלה
(It was completed at the beginning of Nisan, 5312 (03.1552), here in Venice, praise only to the God, blessed be He in each blessing and praise).
Fol. 231: תם ונשלם ספר אור השכל בעזרת יוצר הכל/ אני יעקב ברבי חיים זצ"ל (זכר צדיק לברכה) (The Book
Or ha-Sekhel was completed with help of the Creator of all things, I Yaakov ben R. Hayyim, the righteous, of blessed memory).
Scribal Notes
Fol. 235: decorative initial word contains the name Yaakov ben Hayyim within its first letter.
Watermark
A crowned two-headed eagle in the centre of the folio (85 mm): unidentified; a trefoil flower between 'P' and '3' in the outer corner of the folio (32 mm): similar to Harlfinger 1974-80, Lettres 75 (Venice 1548, 1550).
Hallmark
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Binding
Dark green leather on wooden boards (340 x211 mm); gold-tooled with a central roundel on the front and a shield on the back cover within an undulating lozenge in a large rectangle, decorated with floral motifs at the centre of each side and at the corners. The front roundel is inscribed כאבאלא, and below are the letters XXXX. The spine, blind-tooled with hatching, has four hidden cords and head and tail bands. On the edges of the front cover are vestiges of four groups of three plaited leather bands, two on the side and one each on the upper and lower edges, with corresponding holes for four nails on the edges of the back cover (for preserved bands see Cod.hebr. 301). Each group of three bands terminated in a ring intended to hook over the nails in the opposite cover. The leaves are gilt-edged.
This binding was made for Fugger by the 'Fugger Binder' inVenice(Hobson 1999:119-129). Similar bindings in BSB: e.g. Cod.hebr. 19, 27, 33, 39, 42, 47, 51, 55, 61, 65, 66.
Watermarks on flyleaves: A zigzag (43 mm): unidentified.
Decoration Program
I. Decorated title pages by Meir (fol. 1) and by Yaakov ben Hayyim (fols. 183, 233, 249).
II. Marginal decoration and illustrations by Meir (fols. 17, 18v, 19v, 20r, 20v, 21, 21v, 22v, 23, 23v, 24,
24v, 25, 25v, 26, 26v, 27, 27v, 28, 30, 30v, 31, 32, 32v, 33, 33v, 34, 34v, 35, 35v, 36, 36v, 37, 37v, 38,
38v, 39, 39v, 40, 40v, 41v, 42, 42v, 44v, 46, 46v, 47v, 48, 48v, 49, 49v, 50, 50v, 51v, 52, 52v, 53v, 54,
54v, 55, 55v, 56, 56v, 57, 57v, 58v, 59, 60, 60v, 62v, 63v, 64, 65, 65v, 66, 67, 68, 68v, 70, 70v, 71, 71v,
72, 72v, 73, 74, 75, 76v, 77, 78v, 79, 81, 81v, 82, 85, 85v, 86, 86v, 87v, 88v, 89, 89v, 93, 95v, 97, 97v,
98, 99, 99v, 100, 101v, 102, 104v, 105, 105v, 107v, 109, 119, 121, 128v, 129, 130v, 131, 133, 133v,
134v, 137, 141, 142v, 143, 144v, 145, 152v, 153, 160v).
III. Decorative titles and initial words by Yaakov ben Hayyim (fols. 184, 233, 235).
IV. Decorative diagram by Yaakov ben Hayyim (fol. 225).
V. Decorative colophon by Yaakov ben Hayyim (fol. 231).
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Owners' inscriptions: None.
Inscriptions of librarians and researchers:
The numbering of the texts by Fugger’s librarians does not always correspond to the actual number of texts in the manuscript: N0 1:1-181; N0 2:183-231; N0 3:233-247; N0 4:248v-259; N0 5:261-384.
Fol. 261, in brown ink by Librarian 1a: פרוש שעשע מורי הרב/ רבינו שמואל על ספר הנקר/ ויקרא רבה
Front flyleaf, verso: an inscription in brown ink by Librarian 1a:
ספר אבו בכר חים יקטן/ ספר השני אור השכל/ ספר שלישי סוד עשר/ ספירות סופם בראשם/ פירוש רבי שמואל/ בויקרא רבה.
Below, by Librarian 3 in brown ink: Sepher abu bahar haim iocthan. Theolog. et Philos.\ Sepher haschem or hasechael. i. luminis intelligetiae.\ sepher schelischi sod aesaer. i. mzsterij X sephirarum\ sephirros sopham le roscham.\ Peirus rebi schemuel. i. Samuelis commentarius in\ Be Vaicra Rabah. vaicra Rabba super Leviticum.
Front pastedown, on the exlibris in plummet: the contents in German.
Exlibris and stamps:
Front pastedown: an exlibris of the Bavarian Court and State Library (227 x 155 mm) with the arms of Elector Maximilian I of 1638 (Dressler 1972:B3ab), stuck over his earlier exlibris (175 x 135 mm) of 1618, before he became Elector in 1623 (Dressler 1972:A3a-f).
On fol. 384v and on the back flyleaf, verso, there is a 20th-century oval stamp of the BSB: BIBLIOTHECA\ REGIA\ MONACENSIS.
Old signatures:
Back cover, upper part in black ink: St. 8 (?) (second signature of Fugger's library).
First front flyleaf, recto, upper left corner in black ink: n0. 5.
Spine, on stickers: 75 and 59 (current signature).
On the exlibris, upper left corner in plummet: Cod.hebr. 59 (current signature).
Main Surveys & Excavations
Sources
Abulafia 2001 אברהם בן שמואל אבולעפיה, אור השכל (עורך: א' גרוס), ירושלים תשס"א (Abraham ben Samuel
Abulafia, Or ha-Sekhel (ed. A. Gross), Jerusalem 2001).
Dressler 1972 F. Dressler, Die Exlibris der Bayerischen Hof- und Staatsbibliothek, 17. bis 20. Jahrhundert, Wiesbaden 1972.
Harlfinger 1974-80 D. Harlfinger, Wasserzeichen aus griechischen Handschriften, Berlin 1974-1980.
Hobson 1999 A. Hobson, Renaissance Book Collecting: Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza,
their Books and Bindings, Cambridge 1999.
Idel 1976 מ' אידל, כתבי ר' אברהם אבולעפיה ומשנתו, ירושלים תשל"ו (M. Idel, Writings of R. Abraham Abulafia
and his Teaching, Jerusalem 1976).
Idel 1978 מ' אידל, "סדר הלימוד של ר' יוחנן אלימנו," תרביץ מח' (תשל"ח): 303-331 (M. Idel, “The Order of
Learning of R. Yohanan Alemanno”, Tarbiz 48 (1978): 303-331).
Shoshana 1996 א' שושנה, ספרא דבי רב: ספר תורת כהנים נוסח כתב יד רומי, בצירוף מסורת וציונים, שינויי נוסחאות והערות
גירסא ולשון, ירושלים תשנ"ו (A. Shoshana, Sifra: Sefer Torath Cohanim, Jerusalem 1996).
Sirat and Dukan, unpublished C. Sirat and M. Dukan, Etude des manuscrits hébreux"sehr inkorrekt"
conservés dans la Bibliothèque de Munich (Institut des Recherche et d'histoire des Textes, CNRS,
Paris), unpublished.
Steinschneider 1893 M. Steinschneider, Die Hebräischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters und die Juden
als Dolmetscher, Berlin 1893.
Steinschneider 1895 M. Steinschneider, Die Hebräischen Handschriften der K. Hof- und Staatsbibliothek
in München, Munich 1895.
Type
Documenter
Ilona Steimann | 2008, 2015
Author of description
Ilona Steimann; Prof. Aliza Cohen-Mushlin | 2008, 2015; 2015
Architectural Drawings
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Computer Reconstruction
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Section Head
Michal Sternthal; Project Head: Prof. Aliza Cohen-Mushlin | 05-2016; 2008-2015
Language Editor
Christine Evans | 2015
Donor
Supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation |
Object Copyright
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB)
Negative/Photo. No.
The following information on this monument will be completed:
Unknown |