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  • First published:
  • 17th century
  • Language: Latin
  • Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source
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Rare Book & Manuscript Library, LJS 251. Germany, 1655. 17th-century copy of a 16th-century treatise (1564, p. 6; 1569, p. 121) on cabalistic gematria (the mystical interpretation of language), in which strings of letters, in this case Latin sentences, are assigned a numerical value. Begins with a dedication to Maurice Hassia, Landgraf of Katsenelnbogen, Dietz, Zitgen-Hain, and Nidda, and a preface in which Schopper cites Christian Renaissance scholar Pico della Mirandola as his primary source for the Hebrew tradition of cabala. The mathematical notation used in the manuscript suggests that the text was copied and updated between 1655 and 1699. Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Find

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Kabbalah and Jewish esotericism.

  • Kabbalah and Jewish esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive matched “Cabala”. Retained metadata contains “Cabala” in the description and “Cabala” in the subject metadata.

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    • “Cabala”· in description
    • “Cabala”· in subject

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  • Contributing institution: University of Pennsylvania Libraries
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  • Source-reported rights: Public Domain
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