Knorr von Rosenroth'sKabbala DenudataPublished (Tom I Sluzbaci, Tom II FRANCOFVRTI) 1684 CE
(This work is primarily in Latin with additional matter in Hebrew and Aramaic as well as some Greek terms;
The filming, scans and organization of the images accessible on this page and in the PDF or ZIP versions are © Bill Heidrick. This work should not be placed on other web sites or sold in any form without the explicit permission of both the University of California at Berkeley and Bill Heidrick. Thanks are due to the staff at the Bancroft Library at UCB for allowing use of the book and granting public access on this web site. Of the nearly 2,600 pages estimated to comprise the entire work, this set is known to be short by two pages overlooked during filming. On first impression, it seemed that 194 pages were left out during the original binding of Pars Tertia into the longer of the two bound volumes used to make these images from Tom I. Thanks to the (1677?) scanned edition of Tom I on line at the National Library in Jerusalem, it is now evident that only a miscollaton is at fault. Pars Tertia of Tom I was placed wrongly, near the end, instead of in its proper location in the version scanned here. Tom II seems to be complete, but other copies have not been examined. For more information, see the "Technical Details" section, below. The JNUL online version of Tom I is at http://www.jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/books/html/bk1091404.htm. "Adumbratio Kabbalae Christianae" is missing in that edition, but the plates are apparently intact. The resolution of the images there is higher than will be found on this web site. The material on this present website may be easier to download and does include Tom II. English translations of a few selections from Kabbala Denudata may be found on the internet via Google and other search engines. Beware: The S. L. Macgregor Mathers book, Kabbalah Unveiled, is often represented as a translation of the entire work; but it provides only a portion of the latter part of Tom II: Pars Secunda, Tracts 1 through 3, about 250 pages in all (Zohar sections: Sepher de Zeniutha/Liber Mysterii, Idra Rabba/Synodus Areae Magna and Idra Suta/Synodus Minor). Mathers published a translation of the Latin, but he excluded the Hebrew and Aramaic text which occupies about half of each page. Thus Mathers' Kabbalah Unveiled includes about five percent of the total text of Kabbala Denudata. Eliphas Levi published a French edition of the Idra Suta, which is available in English translation as The Book of Splendours, Aquarian Press and Samuel Weiser, 1973. Some anthologies of translations from the Zohar include one or more of these tracts, while others do not. Moses de Leon's Zohar is itself a much larger work, and these texts are particularly difficult to render into European languages. Perhaps the most valuable part of Mathers' Kabbalah Unveiled is the introduction, an abridgement of Christian D. Ginsburg's The Kabbalah (1862, Longmans, Green & Co.; more recently published in The Essenes, Their History and Doctrines; The Kabbalah, Its Doctrines, Development and Literature, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970). The Ginsburg work is particularly helpful to have in hand while reading this present set of page scans, since Ginsburg provides many of the Greek terms that may be difficult to see on these JPG images.
With a very good broadband internet connection, all that needs to be downloaded would be four pdf files — available both at the heads of the four tables of content and at the bottom of this web page. I've added some advice on downloading with the latter group. With a slower or dial-up internet connection, the pdfs are not practical choices. In that case, individual zips of portions of the text can be downloaded from the content tables, much as a 17th century contemporary might have ordered the individual parts of the book. Those who do take the pdfs might also like to download the zip file containing the end plates from Tom I, since it is convenient to have those available separately while reading the figure descriptions found near the end of Tom I in the second pdf. Page images of these plates can also be exported with Adobe Reader from the pdf itself. | |||||||
Description and content: | Introductory and reference materials on the subject of Kabbalah. Indexes to content. Orientation for Christian scholars. A very extensive Lexicon of Hebrew terms from the Zohar and related literature – this lexicon is arguably the most valuable portion of the book. It includes brief essays on terms and ideas, along with observations of gematria and other details. Shows influence from Bartolocci's Bibliotheca Magna Rabbinica of 1675. | |||
PDF version: | Tom I, part 1 of 2: KRKD1A.pdf — c. 126 megs | |||
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Title page Inscriptiones Tituli Praefatio ad Lectorem |
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Index Latinus Materiarum Partis Prioris Index Locorum S. Scripturae V.T |
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Adumbratio Kabbalae Christianae id est Syncatabasis Hebraizans... Caput Primum: De variis universi statibus. Kabbalista. Philosophus Christianus. — pg 3 Cap II: De statu universi primo sive primaeva institutionis... — pg 4 Cap III: De Medio Primaevae productionis seu Adamo primo. — pg 7 Cap IV: De Naturis Productis, & sine Productionis earum. — pg 26 Cap V: De statu secutae Destitutionis — pg 27 Cap VI: De statu modernae Constitutionis. — pg 30 Cap. VII: De Animarum praexistentia in specie — pg 33 — pg 54 Cap IX: De status istius tertii De pravatione, sive De Lapus Animarum — pg 56 Cap X: De status postremae Restitutions, ejusque Gradis primo — pg "59" Animarum — pg 61 Cap XII: De duobus ultimis Restitutionis Messiana Gradibus |
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Apparatus in Librum Sohar Pars Prima, nempe Loci Communes Kabbalistici,... Lexici... under Hebrew initial letter sections |
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Beth — pg 179 Ghimel — pg 221 | KRKD1f.zip | OR | KRKD3f.zip | |
Daleth — pg 242 He — pg 261 Vau — pg 285 Sain — pg 292 |
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Cheth — pg 330 Teth — pg 366 |
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Yod — pg 374 | KRKD1i.zip | OR | KRKD3i.zip pp. 444-461 miscollated | |
Caph — pg 463 Lamed — pg 488 |
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Mem — pg 503 | KRKD1k.zip | OR | KRKD3k.zip | |
Nun — pg 559 Samech — pg 602 Ajin — pg 607 |
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Pe — pg 640 Zade, vel Zaddik — pg 650 Kuph — pg 669 Resch — pg 679 |
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Schin — pg 694 Tav — pg 726 |
KRKD1n.zip End of bound volume | OR | KRKD3n.zip Volume cont. in this version | |
Description and content: | Comments from other scholars, more advanced articles on aspects of Kabbalah (tree of life, metaphysics, the soul, visions of Ezechiel, merkabah). Works by Isaac Luria, Moses Cordovaro and Abraham Cohen Irira. | |||
PDF version: | Tom I, part 2 of 2: KRKD1B.pdf — c. 83 megs | |||
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Apparatus in Librum Sohar pars secunda, cujus Contenta Exhibet Versa Pagina, Excerpta ex Epistola quadam Complilatoris de utilitate Versionis Libri Cabbalistici Sohar. — pg 3 Tabula Kabbalistica prima — pg 6 Tabula Secunda Clavis subliminoris Kabbalae, de ordine divinorum Nominum pro resolutione difficiliorum Aenigmatum Libri Sohar — pg 7 | KRKD3o.zip | ||
Tractatus I. Libri Druschim, seu Introductio Metaphysica ad Cabbalam. Autore R. Jizchak Loriense. — pg 28 | KRKD3p.zip | |||
Tractatus de Anima R. Moscheh Korduero — pg 100 | KRKD3q.zip | |||
Theses Cabbalisticae — pg 150 Ad Clarissimum ac Eruditisimum Virum N. N. De rebus in Amica sua Responsione contentis Ulterior Disquisitio (part in English) — pg 173 | KRKD3r.zip | |||
Visionis Ezechieliticae sive Mercavae Expositio... — pg 225 Catechismus Cabbalisticus, sive Mercavaeus... Decem Sephirotharum Usus egregie illustratur. — pg 274 Fundamenta Philosophiae sive Cabbalae Aeto- Paedo-Melissaeae... — pg 293 | KRKD3s.zip | |||
Apparatus in Librum Sohar Pars Tertia & Quarta Liber Porta Coelorum ... autore R. Abraham Cohen Irira, Lusitano Praefatio Editoris ad Lectorem Pars Quarta -- these are below: Liber Porta Coelorum) Explicationem Arborum... Figura I etc. — pg 195 ff. of figure plates – ignored by the binder. | KRKD3t.zip | |||
Liber Porta Coelorum .. Autore R. Abraham Cohen Irira, Lusitano | KRKD3u.zip | |||
End plates | KRKD3x.zip | |||
Description and content: | Synopsis and introduction to the Zohar. Works by Issachar ben Napthali and R. Napthali Hirtz. | |||
PDF version: | TOM II, part 1 of 2: KRKD2A.pdf — c. 66.7 megs | |||
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Title: Kabbalae Denudate Tomus Secundus... Liber Sohar Restitutus... Cancrinis Cancrinus and Lectori Philebraeo | KRKD2a.zip | ||
Pars Prima ejusque Tractatus Primus; quae est Synopsis Celeberrimi illius codicis Cabbalistici, qui vulgo dicitur Liber Sohar. Authore R. Jisaschar F. Naphthali Sacerdote Index Titulorum and Titulus Primus, Lumen Legis ... — pg 1 Titulus Secundus. Domus Precum... — pg 33 Titulus Tertius Semita Eleemonsynarum — pg 45 Titulus Quartus Porta Poenitntiae... — pg 49 | KRKD2b.zip | |||
Titulus Quintus Ordo Judicii... — pg 55 Titulus Sextus Porta Castitatis & Sanctitatis ... — pg 59 Titulus Septimus Opus Mensae ... — pg 69 Titulus Octavus Porta Festorum sive Convocatio Sanctitatis — pg 72 Titulus Nonus De Festo Paschatos et Reliquis Festis in specie ... — pg 79 Titulus Decimus Semita Justorum... — pg 84 | KRKD2c.zip | |||
Titulus Undecimus Porta Retributionis Futurae... — pg 103 Titulus Duodecimus Porta Concupiscentiae Bonae & Concupiscentiae Pravae ... — pg 116 Titulus Decimus Tertius Porta Spirituum ... — pg 118 Titulus Decimus Quartus De Excellentia Terrae Jisraelis po. Pulique Jisraelitici et de Exilio Eorum ... — pg 130 Titulus Decimus Quintus. Gesta Patrum ... — pg 134 Titulus Decimus Sextus. Porta Mortis ... — pg 136 Titulus Decimus Septimus. De Sanctuario Ejusque Requisitis ... — pg 139 Titulus Decimus Octavus. Porta Collectaneorum. ... — pg 141 Titulus Decimus Nonus. Historiae Insignes ... — pg 144 | KRKD2d.zip | |||
Partis Primae Tractatus Secundus, quae est Introductio pro meliori intellectu Libri Sohar. e Scripto R. Naphthali Hirtz, F.R.Jaacob Elchanan, quod vocat Vallem Regiam ... — pg 151 Sectio Prima. De Mundo Infinit primo ... — pg 152 | KRKD2e.zip | |||
Sectio Secunda ... — pg 234 Sectio Tertia ... — pg 239 Sectio Quarta ... — pg 245 Sectio Quinta. Sphaera Splendoris ... — pg 254 | KRKD2f.zip | |||
Sectio Sexta. Operis Creationis, quae agit de Mundo Inanitatis ... — pg 259 | KRKD2g.zip | |||
Description and content: |
Translations from the Zohar (de Zeniutha, Idra Rabba, Idra Suta) and commentaries. Additional portions of the Zohar partly translated, discussed and summarized. Material by Vital, Naphthali Hirtz, Luria, Irira. | |||
PDF version: | TOM II, part 2 of 2: KRKD2B.pdf — c. 131 megs | |||
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Pars Secunda ejusque Tractatus Primus, qui est Siphra de Zeniutha seu Liber Mysterii, sive Occultationis — pg 347 | KRKD2i.zip | ||
Partis Secundae Tractatus Secundus, qui est Idra Rabba, seu Synodus Areae Magna... — pg 386 | KRKD2j.zip | |||
Partis Secundae Tractatus Tertius qui est Idra Suta seu Synodus Minor... — pg 521 | KRKD2m.zip | |||
Partis Secundae Tractatus Quartus que est in Siphra de Zeniutha Librum Mysterii commentatius ... R. Chajim Vital... R. Naphthali Hirtz F. Jacob Elchanam ... — pg 1 In Siphra De Zeniutha sue Librum Occultationis Commentarius R. Jizchak Lorjensis Germanis e Manuscripto... — pg 3 | KRKD2n.zip | |||
Commentarius generalis methodicus in tresistos Libros: Librum Occultationis; & Synodostam majorem, quam minorem, e Libro Emek Hammelech ... — pg 47 | KRKD2o.zip | |||
Partis Secundae Tractatus Quintus qui continent Tres Tractatus Initiales Libri Sohar... — pg 145 | KRKD2q.zip | |||
Pars Tertia que est Pneumatica Cabbalistica seu Doctrina Hebraeorum de Spiritibus, nempe Angelis Bonis & malis, itemque de Anima ... — pg 186 Partis Tertiae Tractatus I. Pneumaticus ... Domus DEI. Authore R. Abraham Cohen Irira Lusitano e dogmatibus R. Jizchak Lorjensis ... — pg 189 | KRKD2r.zip | |||
Partis Tertiae Tractatus Secundus Pneumaticus, de Revolutionibus Animarum, que in hac materia a Judaeis vocatur primus ... R. Jitzchak Lorjensis Germani... — pg 243 | KRKD2s.zip |
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