General index
This index only covers the main part of the study. The catalog of Widmanstetter’s library is accompanied by its own indices.
Abarbanel, Samuel
5
Abdallah, Ignatius (patriarch)
268
Abraham (biblical figure)
167, 241
Abraham of Posquières
124, 238
Abraham Ibn Ezra
69, 166, 188, 216
Abrams, Daniel
91, 247n118, 290n107
Abu Aflaḥ
160
Abulafia, Abraham
110, 213, 243
Accademia Pontaniana
54
Adam (biblical figure)
251, 308
Adam (kabbalistic figure)
252, 276, 279, 281
Adelkind, Cornelius
27, 41, 71, 102n59, 303
Adret, Solomon ben Abraham
150
adultery
232
Aegineta, Paulus
160
Aemilius
Paulus 22, 200
as bookseller
28, 56, 72–75, 85
as librarian
177–178, 303
as printer
196–197
as scribe
90, 115–125, 135–136, 287–289, 294–299
assessment by others
116–117
Agurrumiyya (Giustiniani)
222–223
Alatrino, Abraham
34–39, 42, 84
Albo, Joseph
198
Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria-Munich
8, 18–19, 116–117, 120, 145–146, 155n50, 175, 177–178, 303
Alcorani Epitome (Widmanstetter). See Commentary on the Quran
Alexander, Lazarus
304
Alphonsi, Petrus
203
Amasya
5f, 69, 84
Ambrogio, Teseo
5, 80, 267–268, 271
Amerbach, Bonifacius
142
Amman, Caspar
40n57, 196n12
Angeloni (Roman family)
35
Apocalypse (New Testament)
263, 283–285
apostle
257–258, 264, 277, 305
Arabic
Bible
78, 223
books
8, 17, 23, 37, 40n56, 43n67, 56n112, 145, 153–154, 154n47, 221
philosophy
43–45, 165, 168
study of
6, 78, 102, 221–224, 253, 272
translations from
165, 174, 217–218
Arabs
230, 232
Aramaic
of the Zohar
96–98, 101, 197, 214, 285
study of
23, 80, 117, 197–198
of the Talmud
198, 205
of the Targumim
10, 116n115, 197, 215
Arikh Anpin
279–285
Aristophanes
252
Arles
31–32
Armenian
9n31, 80
Arrivabene, Andrea
253
Ars generalis ultima (Llull)
287
artes liberales
183–184
astronomy
10, 37, 212, 216–217
Astruc (Provençal family)
32n21
Augenspiegel (Reuchlin)
163n73, 186, 307
Augsburg
4f, 7, 10, 28, 56, 58, 72, 116, 143, 152, 155, 177
Augustine, Order of Saint
12, 47, 134,
Augustine, Saint
235, 264
Austria
77, 84–85, 125, 135, 143, 148, 156, 255, 303
Averroes
32n21, 43–44, 165, 216
Azriel of Gerona
114, 153
Babylonia
205–206
Babylonian Talmud
40, 71, 246
Barcelona
203
Basel
4, 10, 225
Bauler, Gregor
3
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München
10, 21, 48n83
Beit-Arié, Malachi
158n56
Benjamin of Montalcino
239
Bessarion (cardinal)
30n15
Bible
Arabic
78, 223
Biblia Rabbinica
27, 71, 214
commentary
10, 22, 91–94, 158–161, 166n89, 186–187, 189, 191t, 215
Constantinople Polyglot
77–79, 82–84, 215
Latin
146, 162, 183
Plantin Polyglot
116–117
See also Syriac New Testament
See under Hebrew
Bibliander, Theodor
225–227, 253, 274n63
bibliography. See under catalog
Bibliotheca Universalis (Gessner)
173, 184–185
Binah
247, 249, 281, 286
Blair, Ann
197
Boaz and Yachin
257, 286
Bobzin, Hartmut
14n44, 221–229, 253
Bologna
4f, 9, 71, 150, 167–168, 222, 267
Bomberg, Daniel
22, 26, 61, 73–76, 100–102, 116, 150, 161, 173
inventory of stocks
67–72
letter to Parnas
64–66, 101
Talmud
9, 88, 159n61, 171, 203, 231
Bonifacius of Ragusa
79, 82–83
book. See manuscripts; prints. See under Arabic; Greek; Hebrew; Jews; Latin
book agent. See booksellers
book binding
8, 46, 50, 70, 139, 147, 152–156
inscription on
162–167, 171–172
Italian
90, 102–103
limp parchment
28, 29f, 90, 121, 148–153, 156, 161, 183n131
rebound books
156–162
Widmanstetter
28, 29f, 110, 132, 148, 150–154, 159
bookfair
73–75
book list. See catalog
book trade
19, 27, 57–59, 63–65, 147
booksellers
27–28, 55–58, 147, 173
Christian
22, 57, 63–75
Jewish
21–22, 56–63, 85, 97
See also Aemilius, Paulus; Bomberg, Daniel
botany
209–210
Botarel
Moses 124
Brescia
Biblioteca Queriniana Ms. L FI 11
129
Burman, Thomas E.
253
Busbecq
Ogier Ghiselin de 77, 80–85
Buxtorf, Johann
196
Cairo
153
Campo de’ Fiori
50–52, 58–59
Candelabri typici interpretatio (Postel)
273–275
Capsali, Elijah
25
Carafa, Gian Pietro alias Paul IV
42
cartolai. See booksellers
Casaubon, Isaac
115, 305
Castro
120–121
catalog
20–21, 140
bibliography
67, 172–175
book list
57–58, 62–63, 190–191
Christian
172–175, 186–191
booksellers’
62–64, 67–71
Jewish
190–191
of Munich court library
116, 177–185, 303–304
physical arrangement of books and
175, 184
subject classification
188–191
theory
183–185
Widmanstetter’s catalog
164, 175–183
Widmanstetter’s title inscriptions
162–175
Catherine de’ Medici
8n28, 114
Catholic Church
1, 14, 24, 145, 188, 225, 242, 233–235, 257, 268, 273, 307–310
Chajes, J.H. (Yossi)
129n165, 290n110, 294, 295n123
Charles V (Holy Roman emperor)
4, 7, 13, 32, 61, 120, 142, 168
Charles VIII (king of France)
32
Chirurgia parva (Lanfranco of Milan)
217
Christian Hebraism
38, 40, 46, 52–53, 65, 68, 101, 131, 193–195, 217
cataloging
186–191
knowledge of Zohar
97–89
on the term
13–14, 236
Christian Kabbalah
10–14, 219, 236, 244, 264, 305–311
See also under Kabbalah
Christian mysticism
261–263
Christianity
10–15, 24, 40, 101, 186, 203, 205, 218, 235, 241–242, 244, 299, 302, 305, 308–310
Christoph, Duke of Württemberg
80, 266n31
circumcision
261–262, 280–281
Clement VII (pope)
6, 44, 61, 94, 107, 112, 206, 212
Cluny
224
Commentary on the Daily Prayers (Recanati)
122–124
Commentary on the Quran (Widmanstetter)
7, 14, 23–24, 170, 193, 219–254, 257, 260, 289, 309–310
Company of Silk Weavers
150
Compendium Alchorani
227
Constantinople
5f, 67, 76–85, 160–161, 215
Constantinople Polyglot
77–79, 82–84, 215
Conti, Vincenzo
126
convert
13, 31–32, 38, 41, 115, 126, 169, 200, 208, 222, 224–226
as scribes
9, 20, 22, 44, 72, 93, 100, 115, 202
Copernicus, Nicolaus
212
Corpus Toletanum
225–228
Cosmographicae disciplinae compendium (Postel)
272
Damascus
44, 76, 92, 153
Dattilus
5, 193, 236–238
David of Montalcino
239
De Arte Cabbalistica (Reuchlin)
12–13, 234–235, 307
De Verbo Mirifico (Reuchlin)
12, 244
Dernschwam von Hradiczin, Hans
84
dictionary
22, 64, 146, 173, 187, 189–191, 197–198, 215, 222, 267
Dillingen
269
Dioscurides
81–82
divine names
243, 274, 287, 289t, 300
Divisio philosophiae (Gundissalinus)
184
Dunash ibn Tamim
290
Duran, Profiat
305
Egidio da Viterbo
6, 8, 58, 61, 83, 193–197, 202, 271, 273, 307
his Arabic studies
222–224
his library
27, 43–44, 46–53, 255, 288–289
his outlook on Hebrew literature
23, 165, 211–219
Historia XX Saeculorum
12–13
his Zohar manuscript
76–77, 90–100, 103–107, 111–119, 126–136
his Zohar notebook
92–93
Ein Sof
279, 282, 286, 294
Eleazar ben Judah of Worms
19, 114, 131–136, 153
Eleazar ben Moses ha-Darshan
153
Eliano, Vittorio
126
Elijah Hayyim of Genazzano
121, 123, 238–242
emendation
111, 113, 117, 130–132
Ephraim the Syrian
82, 268
Epithalamia in Nuptias (Fabricius)
270
Epitome Alcorani. See Mahometis Theologia
Erasmus of Rotterdam
207
Ernst von Salzburg (archbishop)
7, 51, 143–144
Estienne, Henri
215
Ethiopic New Testament
268
Euclid
165
Eve (biblical figure)
251
Fabricius, Georg
270
Fagius, Paulus
16–18, 68, 70, 74
Farnese, Alessandro. See Paul III (pope)
Farnese, Pier Luigi, Duke of Parma
6, 27, 86, 90, 119–121, 124
Fend, Erasmus
117, 146
Ferdinand I (king of Austria)
7, 22, 81, 125, 142–143, 155, 269–271
Fez
33
Ficino, Marsilio
216
Flaminio, Antonio
38, 46, 53–55, 159
four elements
244, 289t, 297
France
31–32, 60, 203, 272
Francis I (king of France)
5
Francis of Assisi, Saint
266
Frecht, Martin
17–18, 50, 144–145
Freiburg
142
Fugger, Johann Jakob
52, 147, 155–156, 164, 177–181, 303–304
Gabriele della Volta
76, 92, 98, 100
Galen
217
Gamaliel II
205
Gatigno, Hayyim ben Samuel
90, 125–132
Germany
6, 22, 26–29, 42, 60, 135–136, 141, 143, 148, 156, 195, 200
Gessner, Conrad
67–71, 173, 175, 184–185
Gevurah
259, 286
Gikatilla, Joseph
98
gilgul neshamot (transmigration of souls)
1, 13–14, 23, 193, 235–242, 254, 307–309
Giolito, Giovanni
58, 63–64
Giustiniani (printer)
27, 89, 95n33
Giustiniani, Agostino
223
Goeze, Johann-Melchior
300–301
Gonzaga, Don Ferrante
120
Gradoli
4f, 120–122, 124
grammar
10, 64, 69, 161, 173, 188, 190, 215, 222–223, 259
Grammatica Hebraea (Münster)
172–173, 187–188
Greek
books
9, 63–64, 78, 80–81, 85, 144–147, 165, 173, 176, 179–181, 251, 270
New Testament
80n189, 117, 206–212, 228, 263, 266, 283–284, 300
philosophy
11–12, 35, 244–246, 250–253, 290
study of
3, 102, 199
Grimani, Domenico (cardinal)
8, 52
Gumppenberg, Ambrosius
171
Gundissalinus, Dominicus
184
Gutenberg, Johannes
56
hadith
224
Hadrian (Roman emperor)
189
haggadah
89
halakha
22, 41, 160–161, 187, 191, 198
Ḥalfan, Elijah
41
Hamburger, Jeffrey
264
Hamon, Moses
81–82
Ḥayyat, Judah
33–34, 95–96
Hebrew
and the New Testament
206–211
Bible
16–17, 26, 35, 52, 63, 74, 78, 99–100, 104–105, 165, 170, 172–173, 186–191, 195, 198, 203, 206–209, 214–215, 230–232, 262, 300
manuscripts
9, 13, 26–27, 44–47, 83, 144, 215, 304
name
205, 243
prints
9, 20–22, 27–29, 55–76, 88–89, 116, 120, 148–150, 156, 158–159, 167, 178–179, 215
script
134, 200–202
study of
5–6, 12–13, 17–18, 194–206, 211–216
translations into
23, 97, 165, 187, 216–219
See also manuscripts; prints
Hebrew-Latin dictionary (Widmanstetter)
198–199
Heidelberg
4
Hepburn, James
115
Hermes Trismegistus
11
Ḥesed
259, 281, 286
Historia XX Saeculorum (Egidio)
12–13
Hod
129, 281, 286
Ḥokhmah
247, 281, 286
Holy Land
9, 76, 82–83, 88, 168, 214
ḥuppah
299
Idel, Moshe
97
Idra Rabba
278–285, 299–300
Iggeret Ḥamudot (Genazzano)
238–242, 295
ilanot
114–115, 274–276, 290–299
See also ten sefirot
Ill Fortune of Learned Men (Valeriano), The
53–54
Immanuel ben Yekutiel of Nola
129, 131
Immanuel of Rome
56, 141n10, 171
imperial diet
7, 144–145, 168
incest
235
Ingolstadt
3n7, 74–75, 116, 177
Inquisition
62, 126n155, 174, 203, 269, 309
intoxication
231–232
Iosuae Imperatoris Historia (Masius)
188–190
Isaac (biblical figure)
286
Isaac ben Jacob ha-Kohen
114, 153
Isaac Mor Hayyim
96–97
Isaac of Acre
89
Isaac of Günzburg
196–199
Isaac of Pisa
96
Islam
1, 169, 219–221, 233–253, 302, 308
Isny
4f, 10, 17, 68, 70
Italy
1, 95, 156, 190, 269, 272, 291
book acquisitions in
25–30, 33–75, 84–85
Widmanstetter in
4, 7, 9, 21–24, 125, 135–136, 141, 143, 148, 150, 156, 277
Jacob the Syrian
268
Jerome, Saint
162, 207
Jerusalem
5f, 82–83, 233, 250
Jerusalem, NLI
Ms. Heb. 28°613, 129
Jesuit order
146, 176, 272
Jesus Christ
12, 115, 124, 162, 186, 193, 200, 209, 218, 244, 300, 308
in anti-Christian polemics
169–170
in Christian mysticism
261–266
in Quran
230, 248–249
in sefirotic plate
255–266, 275, 280–285, 294
in Talmud
205–206
language spoken by
80, 214, 267
See also Passion of Christ
Jews
96–97, 101, 110, 164, 174, 200, 261–262, 307
as scribes
9, 88, 125–126, 132–134
as teachers
18, 40–41
books from
34–46
booksellers
59–63, 75, 78
conversion of
13, 118, 169, 187n144, 200, 208
expulsion of
25–27, 30–34, 302
libraries of
190–191
Widmanstetter on
168–170, 202–205, 233–235, 241–243, 250n127
John of Damascus
228
John the Baptist
73, 308
John, Saint
2, 194, 206–211, 218, 255–259, 263–265, 277, 282, 284–285
Josef ben David Ibn Yaḥya
190
Joseph ben Abraham Ibn Waqar
114, 153
Juan Gabriel of Teruel
222
Judah ben Samuel
122–124
Judaism
10, 40, 186, 200, 231, 237, 241, 244, 273, 302, 305, 308
Judeo-Arabic. See Arabic
Julius III (pope) alias Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte
7
Justinian (Roman emperor)
187
Kabbalah
1, 18, 33–36, 45, 50, 63, 83, 161, 204,
as purported source of Quran
233–253
availability of
87–93
Christian study of
2–3, 5–6, 22–27, 41, 46–47, 53, 213–219, 85, 186–191, 194, 221, 254–261, 272–286, 301–302, 304–311
copied for Widmanstetter
91–135, 286–299
Italian
95–96
pictorial tradition
2, 22, 24, 114–115, 124–125, 129, 219, 272–277, 286–299, 305
Sefardic
95–96
See also ilanot; partsufim; ten sefirot; volvelle
See also under manuscripts; Widmanstetter, Johann Albrecht
Keter
281, 286, 294
Keter Shem Tov
278
Kimhi, David
158–159, 188
Kimhi, Samuel
216
Kraft, Kaspar
270
Krakow
132
Kuntz, Marion
219
Kyeser, Konrad
46
Lake Bolsena
124
Lake Constance
17
Landauer, Meyer Hirsch
91n21
Landshut
4f, 51–52, 144
Lanfranco of Milan
217
Latin
67, 121, 135, 159, 170, 210–211, 227, 248–249, 303
books
63–64, 92, 152, 185
translation into
8–9, 44, 117, 127, 145–147, 162, 172–173, 176–180, 197–199, 206–207, 213–215, 219, 222, 224–225
Legenda Aurea
262
Leipzig
74
Leo Africanus
Johannes alias al-Hasan Muhammad al-Wazzan 222–223
Leo X (pope)
13, 222
Leonsberg, Anna von alias Anna Lucretia Widmanstetter
6, 8, 31
letter writing
65–66, 101, 194–197
Levant
25–26, 70–72, 76, 80, 83, 266, 269
Leviathan
193, 231
levirate marriage
239
Levita, Elijah
17, 52, 126, 172, 187
as copyist
134–135
Masoret ha-Masoret
52, 87
Meturgeman
61
working for Bomberg
61, 68–71
Liber fidei (Fagius)
17n52
Liber sacrosancti Evangelii de Jesu Christo (Widmanstetter). See Syriac New Testament
library
16, 20, 30, 139–146, 175–176, 183–186, 268
Christian
46–55, 183–190
Jewish
34–46, 85, 190–191
Munich court
8, 19, 177–178
of Antonio Flaminio
53–55, 159
of Egidio da Viterbo
47–53, 92–93, 100, 114, 118–124, 126, 131, 213–215
of Jacob Mantino
43–45, 108–110, 168
of Pier Luigi Farnese
90, 119–121
of Pope Clement VII
107, 112
of Pope Paul III
90
Vatican
53, 112–113, 140
See also book binding; catalog; manuscripts; prints
liturgy
62, 205, 277
Llull, Ramon
287
logos
210
Lucretius. See Widmanstetter, Johann Albrecht
Ludolph of Saxony
261
Ludwig X, Duke of Bavaria-Landshut
6, 143–144, 197
Luke, Gospel of
262–263, 283n12
Luther, Martin
225–226, 229
Magellan, Ferdinand
271
magic
53, 160, 168, 243
Maḥberot (Immanuel of Rome)
56, 171
Mahometis Theologia (Widmanstetter). See Commentary on the Quran
Maimonides, Moses
9, 37, 40, 42, 73, 160, 169–171, 189, 196, 198, 216, 277
Malkhut
128, 281, 286
Mantino, Jacob
43–45, 55, 85, 107–112, 168, 222
Mantua
62, 75, 95–96, 107, 168
manuscripts
9n31, 78–79, 85–86, 144–145
Arabic
8, 39, 145, 154, 221–224
copied by converts
9, 20, 22, 44, 72, 93, 100, 115, 202
copied by Jews
9, 88, 125–126, 132–134
Greek
81, 85, 179–181, 209, 212
Hebrew
13, 26–27, 44–47, 83, 144, 215, 304
kabbalistic
6, 9, 13, 41, 50–51, 53–54, 83, 87–136, 153–154, 213–219, 255, 278–300
Latin
92, 98, 127, 152, 185, 197–202
Syriac
5, 82–83, 267–268
Marcello Cervini alias Marcellus II (pope)
268
Marcus of Toledo
225
Maronites
79
Martini, Raymond
203
Masaʾil ʿAbdallah ben Salam
225
Masius, Andreas
7, 17, 82–83, 88, 131, 173–175, 186–191, 270–271
masorah
161, 187
Masoret ha-Masoret (Levita)
52, 87
Matthew, Gospel of
187, 208, 263, 283
Maximilian I (Holy Roman emperor)
186
medicine
10, 216–217
Mediterranean
65, 70–71, 77
Mendoza y Zúñiga, Íñigo López de (cardinal)
222
menorah
257, 274–276, 287, 297
merkavah literature
278
Mersenne, Marin
306
Metatron
128
Meturgeman (Levita)
61
Middle Commentary on the Logic of Aristotle (Averroes)
216
Middle Commentary on the Physics (Averroes)
44
midrash
35–36, 43, 68, 89, 93, 160–161, 186–189, 191, 215
Midrash ha-Neʿelam
98–99, 105, 238
Midrash Rabbah
93, 215
Milan
120, 127
Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Ms. 102, 122–123
Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Ms. P 22, 127–130
Minḥat Yehuda (Ḥayyat)
96
Mirandola, Giovanni Pico della
5, 8, 11, 193, 236
Mishnah
187, 204
Mitridates, Flavio
122
Molkho, Solomon
168–169, 174
Molosso
120
Mordecai ben Eliezer
34–39, 55
Moritz of Saxony, Prince Elector
7, 66n144
Moses (biblical figure)
128, 188, 231, 241
Moses Gad ben Toviah
132–135
Moses of Mardin
15, 255, 268–272
Moses of Norsi
190–191
Mother Joanna
273
Mount Ephesus
257
Mount Sinai
128, 241n93
Mount Zion
82–83
Muhammad, Prophet
23, 169, 219–224, 228–230
as purported student of Jewish Law
230–233
as purported student of Kabbalah
233–254
Christian polemics against
224–228
Munich
4f, 50n16, 34, 44–45, 47, 108, 146, 148, 152, 155, 176–179, 185, 303–304
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München
10, 21, 48n83
BSB 2 A.hebr. 38
160
BSB 2 A.hebr. 67
159
BSB 2 A.hebr. 97
150
BSB 2 A.hebr. 141
102
BSB 2 A.hebr. 245
167
BSB
2 A.hebr. 258–1–9, 198, 231
BSB
2 B.orient 16, 27
BSB 2 Inc. c. a. 1896
158–159
BSB 4 A.hebr. 225
95
BSB 4 A.hebr. 283
171
BSB 4 A.hebr. 300
89
BSB 4 A.hebr. 354
89
BSB 4 A.hebr. 411
28, 70, 138f, 150, 161
BSB Cod.hebr. 6
9
BSB Cod.hebr. 77
42, 166–167
BSB Cod.hebr. 81
22, 132–135, 289
BSB Cod.hebr. 91
212
BSB Cod.hebr. 95
33
BSB Cod.hebr. 96
22, 49f, 126–131, 154, 168
BSB Cod.hebr. 103
22, 106, 115, 118–119, 157
BSB Cod.hebr. 108
165
BSB Cod.hebr. 111
9, 38
BSB Cod.hebr. 112
121–125, 149f, 238–243, 294–298
BSB Cod.hebr. 114
155
BSB Cod.hebr. 115
121, 124, 287–289, 299
BSB Cod.hebr. 117
35–36
BSB Cod.hebr. 119
292–294
BSB Cod.hebr. 124
197–201
BSB Cod.hebr. 201
151f
BSB Cod.hebr. 214
159–160, 166
BSB Cod.hebr. 217
91–95, 99–115, 130, 152, 238, 245, 251, 273, 281
BSB Cod.hebr. 218
44, 91–95, 99–115, 130, 152, 238, 249, 251, 273, 278–285
BSB Cod.hebr. 219
91–95, 99–115, 130, 152, 238, 249, 251, 273
BSB Cod.hebr. 221
114, 153
BSB Cod.hebr. 239
216
BSB Cod.hebr. 264
161
BSB Cod.hebr. 271
31, 217
BSB Cod.hebr. 285
44, 90, 108–111, 152, 213, 243
BSB Cod.hebr. 305
150, 156
BSB Cod.hebr. 315
42–44, 100, 196
BSB Cod.hebr. 321
54
BSB Cod.hebr. 325
9, 83
BSB Cod.hebr. 352
44–45
BSB Cod.hebr. 356
194
BSB Cod.hebr. 448
114, 291–292
BSB L.as. 162
173
BSB Rar. 1229
23
BSB Res/2 A.hebr. 182
194
BSB Res/4 A.hebr. 210
37
ducal court library
8, 19, 116, 177–179, 182–183
Munich Mekhilta
35–36
Münster, Sebastian
8, 163, 172–173, 175, 186–188, 191, 208
Musculus, Wolfgang
50n87, 155
Muslims
202, 204, 224–227, 232, 253
Nachmanides, Moses
37, 171, 203, 237, 243
Naples
4f, 5–6, 27, 34, 47, 54, 71, 143, 171, 239
Naudé, Gabriel
30, 55
Neḥunya ben ha-Qanah
168
Nellingen
3, 4f, 144
Nestorius
233–234
Netsaḥ
129, 281, 286
New Testament
Greek
80n189, 117, 206–211, 228, 263, 283–284, 300
Syriac
15, 24, 48, 255–301, 305, 308–310
New York
Jewish Theological Seminary Ms. 1896
122
Nicolaus of Cues
11
Noah (biblical figure)
308
notarikon
260, 288
Numenius
235, 241
numerology
231, 275
Nuremberg
1, 4f, 220, 226
one-volume-libraries
122, 156–161
Oporinus, Johannes
225
Or Nerot ha-Menorah (Postel)
272–276, 287
Orgier (Provençal family)
32n21
Oriental languages
76–78, 230, 271–272
Origen
210, 243
Otiyyot de-Rabbi ʿAqivah
89, 215
Otsar ha-Kavod (Abulafia)
118–119
Otto von Waldburg (archbishop)
7, 143
Otto
Johannes 227
Ottoman Empire
9–10, 29f, 65–85, 88, 205, 272
Oxford
Bodleian Library, Ms. Huntington Add. E
115
Padua
59, 153
Pagnini, Sante
194
Panthenosia (Postel)
308–309
Paradise
202, 252, 273
Parenzo (printer)
71
Paris
13, 47, 114–115, 203, 206, 215
BnF Ms. F. lat. 3402
276
BnF Ms. héb. 15
215
BnF Ms. héb. 98
215
BnF Ms. héb. 776
295–299
BnF Ms. héb. 794
127–131
BnF Ms. héb. 857
122–123
BnF Ms. lat. 527
92–93, 100, 118–119
BnF Ms. lat. 596
98
BnF Ms. lat. 3363
215
BnF Ms. lat. 3667
127
Parma and Piacenza, Duchy of
120
Parnas, Francesco alias Isaiah ben Eleazar
100–102, 116–118, 125–126, 131, 136, 288, 291
letters to by Bomberg
65–66, 68, 101
as co-editor of the Zohar
44, 90–91, 102–115, 152–153, 273
partsufim
279–285
See also Arikh anpin; Zeʾir Anpin; ten sefirot
Passau
7
Passion of Christ
259–263, 281
Paul III (pope) alias Alessandro Farnese
6, 90, 119–121
Paul IV (pope) alias Gian Pietro Carafa
42
Paul, Saint
262
Perles, Joseph
16n50, 59
Persia
78, 239
Perush Pereq Shirah (Kimchi)
216
Perush Sefer Yetsirah (Pseudo-Rabad)
238, 288
Peshitta. See Syriac New Testament
Peter the Venerable
203, 224, 228
Pfefferkorn, Johann
3, 163, 186–187
philosophia perennis
11, 23, 239–242
philosophy
10, 63–64, 88, 184, 186, 191t, 216–217, 235, 239, 277, 306
Arabic
43–45, 165, 168
Greek
11–12, 35, 244–246, 250, 252–253, 290
Jewish
37, 43, 161
Pinelli, Gian Vincenzo
30n15, 52
Pisa
36, 96,
Plantin, Christophe
116–117
plate
15n46, 116–117
Plato
43–44, 160, 235, 241, 251–253, 290, 206
Postel, Guillaume
7, 23, 76, 205, 219, 226, 288, 302, 305–310
Candelabri typici interpretatio
273–275
Or Nerot ha-Menorah
272–276, 287
Panthenosia
308–309
Syriac New Testament
2, 15, 24, 255–259, 263–265, 269–272
prints
37, 85, 88–89, 116, 120, 137, 175, 179, 271
Hebrew
9, 20–22, 27–29, 55–76, 148–150, 156, 158–159, 167, 178–179, 215
printer
16–17, 26, 56–58, 63–69, 71–75, 100, 117, 147, 173, 196, 214, 227, 269, 303
also Aemilius, Paulus; Bomberg, Daniel; Company of Silk Weavers; Giustiniani; Parenzo; Soncino; Zimmermann, Michael
prisca philosophia
234, 241, 272, 306–310
Prochorus
257
Prommer, Wolfgang
116, 164, 177–185, 304
Protestantism
7, 24, 74, 77, 144, 226, 303, 310
Provence
31–33
Psalm
223, 251, 285
Ptolemaeus, Lactantius
268
Pugio fidei (Martini)
203
Quran
Christian polemics on the
224–228
Christian translations of the
219–222
Commentary on the (Widmanstetter)
7, 14, 23–24, 170, 193, 233–253, 257, 260, 289, 309–310
manuscripts
39, 145, 221–222
Ramadan
231
Razi
232
Recanati, Menachem
50, 88, 94–95, 118, 121–123
Regensburg
4f, 8, 30–31, 143–146, 168
Reggio nell’Emilia
4f, 5, 267
reincarnation of souls. See gilgul neshamot
René of Anjou, Count of Provence
31
Republic (Plato)
43, 290
republic of letters
23, 76
responsa
10, 150, 191t
Reuben ben Jekutiel
36
Reubeni, David
168
Reuchlin, Johannes
3, 23, 26–27, 46, 174, 186–191, 247, 254, 306–311
Augenspiegel
163, 186, 307
De Arte Cabbalistica
12–13, 234–235, 307
De Verbo Mirifico
12, 244
Rignalmo, Giovanni
65–66
Robert of Ketton
219–220, 225, 227
Rödelsee
115
Romanus, Egidius
216
Rome
4f, 34–36, 53, 65–66, 90, 101, 120, 125–127, 131–132, 174, 268
BAV Ms. Vat. ebr. 290
54
BAV Ms. Vat. ebr. 337
35
BAV Ms. Vat. ebr. 528
122–123
Biblioteca Angelica Ms. Lat. 688
92
Biblioteca Angelica Ms. Or. 45
53
Biblioteca Angelica Ms. Or. 61
215
Biblioteca Casanatense Ms. 2971
92–93, 99, 100, 103–106, 111–112
Biblioteca Casanatense Ms. 3091
216
Biblioteca Casanatense Ms. 3098
54
Biblioteca Casanatense Ms. 3105
54, 213
Biblioteca Casanatense Ms. 3154
128–130
Jewish booksellers of
59–61
manuscripts copied in
47, 92, 115, 118, 126, 129, 195, 290
Widmanstetter in
7, 13, 27, 41, 44, 48, 50, 110, 140, 143, 169, 222–223, 273
Rothschild, Jean-Pierre
190
Rudimenta (Giustiniani)
223
Saadia Gaon
78, 114, 124, 153, 223
Salzburg
4f, 143–144
Samuel of Toramo
150
Samuel Rafael ben Benjamin
36
Satan
271
Scazzocchio, Abraham de
41–44, 45–46, 169, 174, 196
Schmidt-Biggemann, Wilhelm
216, 273
Scholem, Gershom
14, 235–237, 254, 290, 302, 304, 309
Schönberg, Nikolaus von (cardinal)
6, 85
Schwarz, Hayyim alias Hayyim Shahor
116, 196–197
science
63, 68, 88, 183, 186, 191t, 212, 244
scribes
9, 20, 22, 44, 72, 88, 93, 100, 115, 125–126, 132–134, 202
See also Aemilius, Paulus; Gatigno, Hayyim; Levita, Elijah; Moses Gad ben Toviah; Parnas, Francesco
Secret, François
273
Seder ha-Ilan
124, 295–297
Sefer ʾAvqat Roḥel
198
Sefer Ginnat Egoz
93
Sefer ha-Bahir
168, 237, 275, 290
Sefer ha-ʿEdut (Abulafia)
243
Sefer ha-ʿIqqarim (Albo)
198
Sefer ha-Ot (Abulafia)
243
Sefer ha-Peliyah
22, 47, 125–131, 154–155, 238, 255, 290
Sefer ha-Qabbalah (Abraham ibn Daʾud)
163, 174, 189
Sefer ha-Razim
53
Sefer ha-Roqeaḥ (Eleazar of Worms)
89
Sefer ha-Shem (Eleazar of Worms)
89, 132, 159–160
Sefer ha-Shorashim (Kimhi)
102
Sefer ha-Temunah
93, 238
Sefer ha-Tseruf (al-Zahrāwī)
213
Sefer Maʿarekhet ha-Elohut (Ḥayyat)
33, 90, 231
Sefer Melits (Abulafia)
110
Sefer Mikhlol (Kimhi)
188
Sefer Shimmushei Torah
243
Sefer Torah Or (Josef ben David ibn Yaḥya)
190
Sefer Yetsirah
54, 93, 246, 274–275, 283, 287–291, 306
sefirah. See ten sefirot
sefirotic tree. See ilanot
Seld, Georg
18, 176–177
Seripando, Girolamo (cardinal)
6, 48, 52, 90, 118, 194–195
Seville
39
Shekhinah
248–249, 251, 273, 281–282
Shem Tov Ibn Shem Tov
89
showbread table
294
Siena
4f, 37, 268
Simon bar Yoḥai
204, 279, 282–284
Socrates
252
Solomon (biblical figure)
249, 284–285
Soncino (place)
9
Soncino (printer)
26, 56, 78, 82
Spain
25, 31, 34, 37–38, 95, 101, 224
Spalatin, Georg
74
Specula (Vincent of Beauvais)
184
St.-Anna-Hof
269
St. Gallen
183–184
Steimann, Ilona
303
Steinschneider, Moritz
18, 21, 44–45, 108, 304
stigmata
266
Stow, Kenneth
42
Striedl, Hans
1n2, 21, 304
Süleyman the Magnificent (Ottoman sultan)
77, 81, 84
Summala brevis (Peter the Venerable)
228
Symposium (Plato)
251–252
synagogue
57
Syria
79, 271
Syriac church
266
Syriac language
5, 15, 80, 82, 260, 266–268
Syriac New Testament (Liber sacrosancti Evangelii de Jesu Christo)
15, 24, 48, 255–301, 305, 308–310
Taʿamei ha-Mitswot (Recanati)
118, 238
Talmud
5, 10, 37, 85
as purported source of Quran
230–233
Christian attitudes towards
62, 98, 162, 170, 174, 307
Christian study of
172–173, 186–194, 197–206
Babylonian
40, 71, 246
Bomberg
9, 88, 159n61, 171, 203, 231
language of
97–98
Tarascon
31
Targum
10, 187, 197, 215, 259
Onqelos
97, 214
Palestinian
98
Yerushalmi
96–97
Temple
206, 210, 257, 286
ten sefirot
2, 13, 24, 128, 218, 305, 310–311
Commentaries on the
122
in Commentary on the Quran
243, 246–250, 254
in the Syriac New Testament
257, 260–261, 273–299
See also Binah; Ein Sof; Gevurah; Ḥesed; Hod; Ḥokhmah; Keter; ilanot; Malkhut; Netsaḥ; Shekhinah; partsufim; Tiferet; Yesod
tetragrammaton. See divine names
Thales of Miletus
244–246
Thessaloniki
10, 67, 76, 85
Tiferet
129, 248–250, 259, 282, 286, 291
Tiqqunei ha-Zohar
108
Tishby, Isaiah
98
Torah
40–41, 128, 243
Transylvania
81
Trefler, Florian
185
Trinity
229–230, 258–259, 265–266, 275–277, 282–286, 300, 305
Trithemius, Johannes
46
Tübingen
4, 26
Tunis
40, 223–224
Turin
4f, 5, 27, 58, 63–64, 143
Ulm
3, 16, 144
Valeriano, Pierio
54
Valla, Lorenzo
162
Veltwyck, Gerard
28, 138f, 150, 161
Venice
4f, 9, 34, 52, 59, 92, 150, 269, 272–273, 303
printing in
22, 27–28, 55–58, 64–71, 85, 89, 100, 274
Vienna
2, 4f, 22, 77, 81, 83–84, 125, 131, 143, 155, 269, 271, 309
Vincent of Beauvais
184
Vita Christi (Ludolph of Saxony)
261–262
Voila, Isaac
62–63, 67
volvelle
287–289
Vrančić, Antun alias Antonius Verantius
22, 77–85
Weiss, Judith
11n34, 274
Wicelius, Georg
16–18, 50, 176–177, 179
Widmannstadt, Philipp Jacob
155
Widmanstetter, Johann Albrecht alias Lucretius
acquires books from booksellers
63–76
acquires books from Christians
46–55
acquires books from Jews
40–46
acquires books via emissaries
77–84
and anti-Christian polemics
42, 169–170
and Arabic
165, 174, 217–218, 221–224
and bindings
147–162
and Greek New Testament
206–211
and Hebrew
6, 18, 194–116
and Hebrew Bible
198, 207–209, 214–215
and Jews
168–170, 202–205, 233–235, 241–243, 250n127
and Kabbalah
1–2, 6, 13–14, 92–95, 213–219, 231–253, 277–299
and Protestantism
226
and Quran
23–24, 202–203, 228–253, 307–310
and Talmud
172–173, 186–194, 202–206, 230–233
and transmission of Jewish texts
162–175
as chancellor
8, 22, 77, 82, 84–85, 125, 143
as papal secretary
6, 120, 206
commissions manuscripts
87, 91–92, 102–115, 118–135, 255, 287–288, 291, 294–295
creates Zohar recension
91–115
draws kabbalistic diagrams
124, 287–289, 295–299
his catalog
164, 175–179, 183
his correspondence
16–17, 23, 43, 51, 68–70, 73–75, 78–80, 84, 194–202, 266, 271
his entry of ownership
30, 51, 54, 109f, 114, 137–138f
relationship with Aemilius
72–75, 115–125, 199–200
relationship with Egidio da Viterbo
6, 12–13, 47–53, 91–95, 118–119, 126–128, 193–197, 211–218, 222–224, 288
relationship with Parnas
65–66, 101–115, 291–292
relationship with Postel
2, 15, 205, 255, 269–273, 288, 305–311
transportation of library
139–147
Widmanstetter, Johann Albrecht, his works
Commentary on the Quran
7, 14, 23–24, 170, 193, 219–254, 257, 260, 289, 309–310
Quibus de causis
15n46
Syriacae linguae prima elementa
8, 80
Syriac New Testament
15, 24, 48, 255–261, 264–272, 275–281, 286–288, 299–301, 305, 308–310
Von den gaistlichen unnd weltlichen Wappen aines Ritters
15n46
Wilkinson, Robert
14, 236, 276
Wolfenbüttel
140
Yalqut Shimʿoni
167, 231
Yehoshua ben Levi
205–206
Yemen
42, 169
Yesod
248, 251, 280–282, 286
Zasius, Ulrich
142–143
Zeʾeir Anpin
285
Zemat, Michele alias Michael Zematus
6, 59, 193
Zena (bookseller)
50–52, 59–61
Zeus
252
Zimmermann, Michael
269–270
zodiac
287, 289t, 294
Zohar
2, 24, 44, 76, 153–154, 189, 204, 300
knowledge about
92–95
manuscript by Egidio
91–106, 111–112
manuscript by Mantino
108–110
printed editions
126
recension by Widmanstetter
91–115
source for Commentary on the Quran
238, 244–253
source for Syriac New Testament
273–286, 291
See also Idra Rabba; Midrash ha-Neʿelam; Tiqqunei ha-Zohar; Widmanstetter, Johann
Zoroaster
11, 239–240
Zorzi, Francesco
306
Zúñiga, Diego López de
222