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Sefirotic Tree
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This elaborate Italian kabbalistic manuscript depicts the inner processes of the divine (the sefirot) in the shape of a tree (in Hebrew, ilan), or tree of life. Visualization plays an important part…

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Artist Unknown

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Date:

Early 16th Century

Subjects:

Kabbalah, Mysticism, Sefirot, Animals, Astrology

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Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Science & Philosophy, Astronomy
Manuscript page with Hebrew text in a half circle shape with many interior circles and branches, with center illustration of a person with three winged animals and an angel, another illustration on the left of person with a crown, and drawings along the perimeter of the half circle.
Sefirotic Diagram of the First Man
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According to the colophon, Natan Hammerschlag’s Ilan de-adam kadmon (Sefirotic Diagram of the First Man) was copied from the writings of Ḥayim Vital, the most prominent disciple of Isaac Luria…

Contributor:

Natan Hammerschlag

Places:

Moravia, Holy Roman Empire (Moravia, Czech Republic)

Date:

1691

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Sefirot, Kabbalah, Mysticism, Body image

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Magic & Mysticism, Magical Texts
Manuscript page with Hebrew text in circular frames arranged as a diagram in the shape of a human head with crown.
Kabbalistic Diagram
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This page from a kabbalistic manuscript depicts the inner processes of the divine (the sefirot). Visualization plays an important part in kabbalah, and these diagrams provided a divine cartography…

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Unknown

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Date:

16th–17th Century

Subjects:

Kabbalah, Mysticism, Sefirot

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Magic & Mysticism, Mystical Texts, Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Manuscript page with Hebrew text and drawing of spheres and interconnected lines.
Sefirotic Tree
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Kabbalist Elijah Menaḥem ben Abba Mari Ḥalfan constructed this diagram, now stained and torn, with the assistance of his tutor Abraham Sarfati. It depicts the sefirotic system and includes Ḥalfan’s…

Contributor:

Elijah Menaḥem Ḥalfan

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1533

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Kabbalah, Sefirot, Mysticism, Art

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology, Science & Philosophy
Manuscript page with Hebrew writing arranged in the form of a tree, with drawings of candelabrum, cherubs, and table in center, and drawing of dragon and figures on bottom left of the page.