Two New Invaluable Research Tools: Catalogues of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Vatican and Parma Libraries
[...]a rumor has persisted for years in traditional Jewish circles that the Vatican has Jewish treasures, going back to the Second Temple, which are hidden from the general public.1 Although the discussions of the provenance of the collections in general and individual manuscripts in particular will...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The Jewish Quarterly Review 2011-07, Vol.101 (3), p.459-465 |
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Zusammenfassung: | [...]a rumor has persisted for years in traditional Jewish circles that the Vatican has Jewish treasures, going back to the Second Temple, which are hidden from the general public.1 Although the discussions of the provenance of the collections in general and individual manuscripts in particular will probably not silence the critics who can argue that even if most of the books in the collections were purchased from their Jewish owners, some Jews might have sold their books to Christians under duress, they reflect the issue's sensitivity. An examination of what treatises were copied as a unit by one scribe in a single manuscript provides useful information for intellectual history (this does not necessarily apply to those manuscripts which were simply bound together and form a single entry in the catalogues, since the bind- er's work could have been arbitrary). [...]Parma catalogue 1333-1337 (originally one manuscript) includes Saadia Gaon's Emunot ve-de'ot (the Hebrew paraphrase) and Commentary on Sefer Yetsirah (as well as Jacob ben Nissim's commentary on the same book); Maimonides' Commentary to Pirke Avot, Introduction to Perek Helek, and Treatise on Resurrection (all in Hebrew translations) as well as selections from Misbneb Torah and epis- tles; Kalonymous b. Kalonymous' Mesharet Mojhe; the ubiquitous Ruah hen; a treatise on logic based on Aristotle's Categories and Porphyry's Isa- goge; Ibn Gabirol's Keter malkhut; Samuel ibn Tibbon's Yikavu ha-mayim; Aristotle's Meteorology; Averroes 'commentary on the Organon; selections of Judah b. Solomon ha-Kohen's Midrash ha-hokhmah; Isaac Israeli's Sefer ba-yesodot; Al-Farabi's Hatbabt ha-nimtsaot; The Prince and the Hermit; Ibn Gabirol's Mivhar ha-Peninim; the pseudo- Aristotelian Sod ha-jodot and Sefer tapuah; al-Harizi's translation of Hunayn ibn Ishaq's Musare ha-filojofim; two lapidaria; notes on astrology; Eleazar of Worms's Treatise on Law¿ of Repentance; verses from the poetry of Immanuel of Rome and Abraham ibn Ezra; and so on. |
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ISSN: | 0021-6682 1553-0604 1553-0604 |
DOI: | 10.1353/jqr.2011.0021 |