Traditionally attributed to Ishmael the High Priest and Nechunyah ben Hakaneh. HATEMUNAH [kabbalah]. With anonymous commentary. WITH: Sod Shem haMeforash

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Traditionally attributed to Ishmael the High Priest and Nechunyah ben Hakaneh. HATEMUNAH [kabbalah]. With anonymous commentary. WITH: Sod Shem haMeforash

First Edition. wide margined copy. Numerous spherical charts. With stamp of Judah Leib [Twersky], son of the Rabbi of Hornasteipel. ff. (1),76. Lightly browned and dampstained in places. Later chestnut morocco, spine in compartments, gently rubbed at edges. Lg.4to Vinograd, Koretz 38

Koretz: Johann Anton Kreiger 1784

Est: $700 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $1,300

Hatemunah is one of the most esoteric works of Kabbalistic literature. It’s importance lies in the theory of Shemitoth (Cosmic Cycles) and takes the form of a commentary on the shapes of the Hebrew alphabet. See EJ, XV col. 999. Ben-Yaakov, in Otzar HaSefarim, no. 46, erroneously states that Sepher HaTemunah was previously printed at the end of Zohar Chadash, Constantinople, 1740. It is in fact, another work: Kuntress Sod Hashem