Place & Time
Manuscripts Across Place and Time
Each pin marks where a manuscript in the library was written. Use the filters to narrow by century, region, subject, or tag — the map updates as you go.
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Notebook of R' Elazar Azkari
Kabbalah · R' Elazar Azkari · 16th c. · Safed
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Ilan HaPartsufim — R' Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Ramchal)
Kabbalah · R' Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Ramchal) · 18th c. · Padua
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Wedding Poem for the Ramchal — Moshe Chaim Luzzatto & Tzippora Finzi (1731)
Poetry · Shimshon Chaim Nachmani · R' Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Ramchal) · Moisè Soave (annotator) · 18th c. · Padua
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Letters from the Ramchal — 131 autograph items, Italy 1735
Kabbalah · R' Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Ramchal) · 18th c. · Padua
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Letter from R' Yehuda HaLevi — autograph, Toledo 1138 (T-S 8J18.5)
Poetry · R' Yehuda HaLevi · 12th c. · Toledo
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Toldos Yaakov Yosef — first edition (Korec, 1780), the first published Hasidic book
Chassidus · R' Yaakov Yosef of Polnoye · The Baal Shem Tov (R' Yisrael ben Eliezer) — teachings · 18th c. · Korec
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Likutei Amarim — Tanya, first edition (Slavita, 1796)
Chassidus · R' Schneur Zalman of Liadi (the Alter Rebbe) · 18th c. · Slavita
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Likutei Moharan — first edition (Ostrog, 1808), printed in Rebbe Nachman's lifetime
Chassidus · Rebbe Nachman of Breslov · Reb Noson of Nemirov (editor & scribe) · 19th c. · Ostrog
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Siddur ha-Besht — the manuscript siddur in which the Baal Shem Tov prayed
Liturgy · The Baal Shem Tov (R' Yisrael ben Eliezer) · The Arizal (R' Yitzchak Luria) — kavanot · 18th c. · Mezhibuzh
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Sifte Yeshenim — annotated copy of R' Yaakov Emden (Ya'avetz)
Bibliography · Shabbatai Bass · R' Yaakov Emden (annotator) · 18th c. · Altona
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Sefer Yetzirah with Ramban, Dunash ben Tamim & Asher ben David commentaries — Rome, 1284
Kabbalah · R' Moshe ben Nachman (Ramban) — commentary · R' Dunash ben Tamim — commentary · R' Asher ben David — commentary · 13th c. · Rome
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Sefer HaBahir — earliest dated complete manuscript (Spain, 1298)
Kabbalah · R' Nehunya ben HaKana (traditional attribution) · 13th c. · Spain
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Sefer ha-Beriah — Nathan of Gaza
Kabbalah · Nathan of Gaza (Nathan ha-Azzati) · 17th c. · Gaza
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Oz l'Elokim — the banned Sabbatean work of Nechemiah Chayun (Berlin, 1713)
Kabbalah · R' Nechemiah Chiya ben Moshe Chayun · 18th c. · Berlin
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Ḳovetz be-Kabbalah — Arizal teachings recorded by a Safed disciple
Kabbalah · Yehudah Mas'ud (compiler) · The Arizal (R' Yitzchak Luria) · R' Moshe Cordovero (Ramak) · R' Shlomo Alkabetz · 16th c. · Safed
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Sefer ha-Chezyonot — R' Chaim Vital's mystical diary, in a 17th-c. copy by R' Yitzchak Yikhini
Kabbalah · R' Chaim Vital · R' Yitzchak ben Avraham Yikhini (copyist) · 17th c. · Safed
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Or ha-Sekhel — R' Avraham Abulafia's prophetic Kabbalah
Kabbalah · R' Avraham Abulafia · 15th c. · Italy
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Or Zaru'a (and other works) — with glosses by R' Shlomo Alkabetz
Kabbalah · R' David ben Yehuda he-Ḥasid · R' Shlomo Alkabetz (glossator) · 15th c. · Spain
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Zohar — Mantua, 1558–1560, with copious early manuscript annotations
Kabbalah · R' Shimon bar Yochai (traditional attribution) · 16th c. · Mantua
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Sefer Chochmat Shlomo (Sapientia Salomonis) — a practical occult manual of the kings of the demons
Kabbalah · Anonymous · King Solomon (traditional attribution) · 19th c. · Central or Eastern Europe
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Maimonides' Commentary on the Mishnah — autograph of Sedarim Nezikin & Kodashim, with the famous Menorah diagram
Halakha · Rambam (R' Moshe ben Maimon / Maimonides) · 12th c. · Fostat
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Mishneh Torah — autograph fragment of Maimonides (Hilkhot Loveh u-Malveh)
Halakha · Rambam (R' Moshe ben Maimon / Maimonides) · 12th c. · Fostat
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Mishneh Torah — with the Rambam's autograph correction note
Halakha · Rambam (R' Moshe ben Maimon / Maimonides) · 12th c. · Fostat
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Mishneh Torah — seven books in a 14th-c. codex (Avodah, Korbanot, Tahara, Nezikin, Kinyan, Mishpatim, Shoftim)
Halakha · Rambam (R' Moshe ben Maimon / Maimonides) · 14th c. · Italy or Spain
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Ṭur Ḥoshen Mishpaṭ — an early manuscript of the Tur's civil-law code (1388)
Halakha · R' Yaakov ben Asher (the Tur) · 14th c. · Spain
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Yiḥuse Tana'im va-Amora'im — genealogies and biographies of the Mishnaic and Talmudic sages
Talmud / Mishna · 14th c. · Europe
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Siddur (Italian Rite) made for a woman — scribed by R' Avraham Farissol
Liturgy · R' Avraham Farissol (scribe) · 15th c. · Ferrara
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The Aleppo Codex (Keter Aram Tzova)
Tanach · Shlomo ben Buya'a (scribe) · Aharon ben Asher (vocalization & masorah) · 10th c. · Tiberias
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The Leningrad Codex (B19a)
Tanach · Shmuel ben Yaakov (scribe) · 11th c. · Cairo
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Yemenite Pentateuch (Genesis–Exodus) — JTS MS L66
Tanach · 15th c. · Sana'a
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Talmud Bavli — Tractates Pesaḥim, Rosh ha-Shanah, and Sukkah (12th-c. manuscript)
Talmud / Mishna · 12th c. · North Africa or Spain
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The Munich Talmud — the only complete medieval manuscript of the Babylonian Talmud
Talmud / Mishna · 14th c. · France
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Talmud Bavli, Tractate Avodah Zarah — the only known uncensored copy
Talmud / Mishna · Shelomo ben Shaul Albagali (scribe) · 13th c. · Ubeda
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The Rothschild Mahzor — one of the most lavishly illuminated Hebrew manuscripts ever produced
Liturgy · R' Yoel ben Shimon (Joel ben Simeon, scribe-illuminator) · 15th c. · Florence
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Sefer ha-Halakhot — possibly the earliest extant manuscript of the Rif
Halakha · R' Yitzchak Alfasi (the Rif) · 12th c. · North Africa or Spain
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Early Mishnah Fragments — leaves from Sedarim Zera'im, Mo'ed, and Nashim (11th–12th c.)
Talmud / Mishna · 11th c. · Mediterranean
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The Kaufman Manuscript of the Mishnah (MS A 50) — complete codex
Talmud / Mishna · 11th c. · Italy
Siddur (Italian Rite) made for a woman — scribed by R' Avraham Farissol
Liturgy · R' Avraham Farissol (scribe) · 15th c. · Ferrara
Siddur ha-Besht — the manuscript siddur in which the Baal Shem Tov prayed
Liturgy · The Baal Shem Tov (R' Yisrael ben Eliezer) · The Arizal (R' Yitzchak Luria) — kavanot · 18th c. · Mezhibuzh
Likutei Moharan — first edition, Ostrog 1808 (printed in Rebbe Nachman's lifetime)
Chassidus · Rebbe Nachman of Breslov · Reb Noson of Nemirov (editor & scribe) · 19th c. · Ostrog
Mishneh Torah — with the Rambam's autograph correction note
Halakha · Rambam (R' Moshe ben Maimon / Maimonides) · 12th c. · Fostat
Maimonides' Commentary on the Mishna — autograph of Sedarim Nezikin & Kodashim, with the Menorah diagram
Halakha · Rambam (R' Moshe ben Maimon / Maimonides) · 12th c. · Fostat
The Kaufman Mishna — complete codex (all six sedarim, MS A 50)
Talmud / Mishna · 11th c. · Italy
Codex Hilleli — Sefer Bereishit
Tanach · Yisrael ben Yitzchak (scribe) · 13th c. · Toledo
Sefer HaPeulot — R' Chaim Vital
Kabbalah · R' Chaim Vital · 16th c. · Damascus
Sha'ar HaTefillah — R' Chaim Vital
Kabbalah · R' Chaim Vital · 16th c. · Safed
Etz HaDa'at Tov — R' Chaim Vital
Kabbalah · R' Chaim Vital · 16th c. · Damascus
Notebook of R' Elazar Azkari
Kabbalah · R' Elazar Azkari · 16th c. · Safed
Sefer Chochmat Shlomo (Sapientia Salomonis) — a practical occult manual of the kings of the demons
Kabbalah · Anonymous · King Solomon (traditional attribution) · 19th c. · Central or Eastern Europe
Oz l'Elokim — the banned Sabbatean work of Nechemiah Chayun (Berlin, 1713)
Kabbalah · R' Nechemiah Chiya ben Moshe Chayun · 18th c. · Berlin
The Kaufman Haggadah
Haggadot · 14th c. · Spain
Haggadah of Yoel ben Shimon
Haggadot · Yoel ben Shimon (scribe) · 15th c. · Germany
Ilan HaPartsufim — R' Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Ramchal)
Kabbalah · R' Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Ramchal) · 18th c. · Padua
Letter from R' Yehuda HaLevi — autograph, Toledo 1138 (T-S 8J18.5)
Poetry · R' Yehuda HaLevi · 12th c. · Toledo
Zohar — Mantua, 1558–1560, with copious early manuscript annotations
Kabbalah · R' Shimon bar Yochai (traditional attribution) · 16th c. · Mantua
Mishneh Torah — autograph fragment of Maimonides (Hilkhot Loveh u-Malveh)
Halakha · Rambam (R' Moshe ben Maimon / Maimonides) · 12th c. · Fostat
The Rothschild Mahzor — Florence 1490, one of the most lavishly illuminated Hebrew manuscripts ever produced
Liturgy · R' Yoel ben Shimon (Joel ben Simeon, scribe-illuminator) · 15th c. · Florence
Mishneh Torah — seven books in a 14th-c. codex (Avodah, Korbanot, Tahara, Nezikin, Kinyan, Mishpatim, Shoftim)
Halakha · Rambam (R' Moshe ben Maimon / Maimonides) · 14th c. · Italy or Spain
Ṭur Ḥoshen Mishpaṭ — an early manuscript of the Tur's civil-law code (1388)
Halakha · R' Yaakov ben Asher (the Tur) · 14th c. · Spain
Yiḥuse Tana'im va-Amora'im — genealogies and biographies of the Mishnaic and Talmudic sages
Talmud / Mishna · 14th c. · Europe
Talmud Bavli — Tractates Pesaḥim, Rosh ha-Shanah, and Sukkah (12th-c. manuscript)
Talmud / Mishna · 12th c. · North Africa or Spain
Early Mishnah Fragments — leaves from Sedarim Zera'im, Mo'ed, and Nashim (11th–12th c.)
Talmud / Mishna · 11th c. · Mediterranean
Sefer ha-Halakhot — possibly the earliest extant manuscript of the Rif
Halakha · R' Yitzchak Alfasi (the Rif) · 12th c. · North Africa or Spain
The Munich Talmud — the only complete medieval manuscript of the entire Babylonian Talmud
Talmud / Mishna · 14th c. · France
Ḳovetz be-Kabbalah — Arizal teachings recorded by a Safed disciple
Kabbalah · Yehudah Mas'ud (compiler) · The Arizal (R' Yitzchak Luria) · R' Moshe Cordovero (Ramak) · R' Shlomo Alkabetz · 16th c. · Safed
Letters from the Ramchal — 131 autograph items, Italy 1735
Kabbalah · R' Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Ramchal) · 18th c. · Padua
Or Zaru'a (and other works) — with glosses by R' Shlomo Alkabetz
Kabbalah · R' David ben Yehuda he-Ḥasid · R' Shlomo Alkabetz (glossator) · 15th c. · Spain
Sefer ha-Beriah — Nathan of Gaza
Kabbalah · Nathan of Gaza (Nathan ha-Azzati) · 17th c. · Gaza
Or ha-Sekhel — R' Avraham Abulafia's prophetic Kabbalah
Kabbalah · R' Avraham Abulafia · 15th c. · Italy
Sefer HaBahir — earliest dated complete manuscript (Spain, 1298)
Kabbalah · R' Nehunya ben HaKana (traditional attribution) · 13th c. · Spain
Sifte Yeshenim — annotated copy of R' Yaakov Emden (Ya'avetz)
Bibliography · Shabbatai Bass · R' Yaakov Emden (annotator) · 18th c. · Altona
Talmud Bavli, Tractate Avodah Zarah — the only known uncensored copy
Talmud / Mishna · Shelomo ben Shaul Albagali (scribe) · 13th c. · Ubeda
Wedding Poem for the Ramchal — Moshe Chaim Luzzatto & Tzippora Finzi (1731)
Poetry · Shimshon Chaim Nachmani · R' Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Ramchal) · Moisè Soave (annotator) · 18th c. · Padua
Sefer Yetzirah with Ramban, Dunash ben Tamim & Asher ben David commentaries — Rome, 1284
Kabbalah · R' Moshe ben Nachman (Ramban) — commentary · R' Dunash ben Tamim — commentary · R' Asher ben David — commentary · 13th c. · Rome