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  "title": "Tree of Life manuscript: Hebrew MS 32, folio 58a",
  "published": "2026-10-14",
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    "holdingLocation": "The John Rylands Library",
    "shelfmark": "Hebrew MS 32",
    "folio": "58a",
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      "notice": "The live OPenn deposit catalog marks these images and content as free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain.",
      "attribution": "University of Manchester Library, Hebrew MS 32, folio 58a; OPenn deposit, hosted by University of Pennsylvania Libraries."
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      "notice": "The OPenn deposit labels its 2017 University of Manchester Library Special Collections metadata CC BY 4.0.",
      "attribution": "Metadata ©2017 University of Manchester Library Special Collections; OPenn institutional deposit."
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      "notice": "Manchester’s separate IIIF attribution reserves rights in its zooming image and labels its downloadable images and metadata CC BY-NC 3.0 Unported. Keep this endpoint notice separate from the OPenn deposit notices."
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    "dateDescription": "Seventeenth century, not before 1662, in Manchester’s manifest.",
    "placeDescription": "The institutional exhibition describes late seventeenth-century copying, probably in Germany/Ashkenaz.",
    "visibleWrittenLabelCount": 11,
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      "written": "כתר",
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      "position": "top, centered above the pair",
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        "y": 808,
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        "y": 847,
        "width": 95,
        "height": 47
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      "expansionProvisional": false
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      "key": "binah",
      "written": "בינה",
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        "y": 850,
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        "height": 48
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    {
      "key": "daat",
      "written": "דעת",
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        "y": 885,
        "width": 86,
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      "expansionProvisional": false
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    {
      "key": "chesed",
      "written": "חסד",
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        "height": 53
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    {
      "key": "gevurah",
      "written": "גבורה",
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    {
      "key": "abbreviation-tt",
      "written": "תת",
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      "key": "netzach",
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    {
      "key": "hod",
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      "key": "yesod",
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        "y": 1130,
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      "key": "malkhut",
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      "label": "OPenn · Manchester Hebrew MS 32 deposit catalog and folio 58a",
      "url": "https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0021/html/HebrewMss32.html#a58a"
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      "label": "OPenn · exact folio 58a photograph, 5452_0116_web.jpg",
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      "label": "University of Manchester · owning-library viewer",
      "url": "https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/view/MS-HEBREW-00032"
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    {
      "label": "University of Manchester · exact manuscript manifest and endpoint notices",
      "url": "https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/iiif/MS-HEBREW-00032"
    },
    {
      "label": "University of Manchester · Tree of Life manuscript context",
      "url": "https://www.digitalexhibitions.manchester.ac.uk/s/jewish-manuscripts/page/hebrew-ms-32"
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  "notes": {
    "intro": "Locate the written sefirot names on one identified manuscript folio. Keep the shelfmark, visible spelling, observed placement and source photograph together.",
    "countObservation": "Eleven written labels are visible, including both Keter and Daat: ten fully written names and the short label תת.",
    "catalogDescription": "The institutional deposit catalog describes folio 58a as a schematic representation of ten sefirot.",
    "countQualification": "The observation of eleven written labels does not establish a theological count of eleven sefirot. The present reading does not explain which labels count toward ten or why Keter and Daat are written together.",
    "abbreviation": "The source label is recorded literally as תת. Tiferet is a provisional lookup expansion; the full spelling תפארת and any abbreviation punctuation are not established by this label reading.",
    "positionConvention": "Reading order runs from top to bottom, with the right-hand Chochmah label before the left-hand Binah label in their paired row. This navigation order records placements, not tree connections or a source-prescribed hierarchy.",
    "regions": "Highlights are manually selected, approximate glyph regions in the unchanged 1200 × 1800 source photograph. They are not exact glyph segmentation or a complete manuscript transcription.",
    "adjacentText": "The surrounding cursive paragraphs, interlinear writing and gloss passages are not fully transcribed here. No count convention or reason for the eleven labels has been established from that explanation; this does not claim that the manuscript contains no such explanation.",
    "edges": "No connecting tree edges are verified in the inspected photograph. The reading aid supplies no inferred paths, pillars, channels, directional arrows, planetary assignments or Keter–Daat toggle.",
    "attribution": "The catalog attributes the work to Hayyim Vital and describes a manuscript with prefaces and glosses. This does not establish an autograph or identify the person who arranged these labels.",
    "datePlace": "Manchester’s manifest dates the manuscript to the seventeenth century, not before 1662. Its exhibition describes late seventeenth-century copying, probably in Germany/Ashkenaz; the place remains uncertain.",
    "rights": "Use the exact OPenn asset with its deposit notices: images/content are marked Public Domain Mark 1.0; 2017 Manchester metadata is CC BY 4.0. Manchester’s separate viewer/IIIF notices remain distinct and are not transferred to this hosted deposit image.",
    "disclosure": "Prepared by Mazalogy with AI assistance and direct source checks. The English names are lookup transliterations, not a full translation. No qualified scholarly, paleographic or native-language review, or institutional endorsement, is claimed."
  },
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    "title": "Try a manuscript reading",
    "questions": [
      "Find Keter and Daat in the photograph. Record where each written label appears.",
      "Copy the short label exactly. Separate its written letters from a possible expanded name.",
      "Record one catalog fact and one visual observation. Which count question remains unanswered?"
    ],
    "answer": {
      "title": "A checked observation",
      "paragraphs": [
        "Keter is centered above the Chochmah/Binah pair. Daat is centered below that pair.",
        "The short label is written תת. Tiferet is a provisional lookup expansion; a fully written תפארת is not observed in that label.",
        "The catalog describes ten sefirot, while eleven written labels are visible. The adjacent cursive explanation is not fully transcribed, so the count convention and the reason for both Keter and Daat remain unestablished."
      ]
    }
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    "provisionalExpansions": 1,
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    "regionCoordinateSystem": "Unchanged source JPEG pixels, origin at top left; width 1200, height 1800.",
    "regionsApproximate": true,
    "connectingEdgesVerified": false,
    "adjacentTextFullyTranscribed": false,
    "countConventionEstablished": false,
    "autographEstablished": false,
    "qualifiedHumanReview": false
  },
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      "attribution": "Metadata ©2017 University of Manchester Library Special Collections; OPenn institutional deposit."
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      "notice": "Manchester’s separate IIIF attribution reserves rights in its zooming image and labels its downloadable images and metadata CC BY-NC 3.0 Unported. Keep this endpoint notice separate from the OPenn deposit notices."
    },
    "worksheet": "Original Mazalogy layout, questions and English reading cues. No blanket license is granted over third-party scans, editions or translations.",
    "fonts": "The SVG embeds Noto fonts and preserves their SIL Open Font License in its metadata."
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