Astrological Calendar from Kabbalistic Manuscript
This astrological calendar contains a zodiac rota, divided into twelve astrological signs. The rota was one of the authoritative schemata that kabbalists used to map the structure of the sefirot, the ten divine emanations.
Credits
© The British Library Board, Add MS 27089. From the collection of The British Library, The Polonsky Foundation Catalogue of Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.
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