Cordovero, Moses. Pardess Rimonim ["Orchard of Pomegranates:" Code of Cordoveran Kabbalah]

AUCTION 39 | Thursday, April 03rd, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Lot 335

(KABBALAH).

Cordovero, Moses. Pardess Rimonim ["Orchard of Pomegranates:" Code of Cordoveran Kabbalah]

On f.28r. floral and bird design in red and brown watercolor. Broad margins. The inscription on the title gives the manuscript's date as "2,176" [le-minyan shetaroth] or 1865 c.e. ff. (6), 156. First and final two leaves laid to size. Foxed, marginal stains. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, bottom missing and rebacked. Folio

San'a (Yemen): 1865

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,000

A most attractively penned manuscript. After the completion of the text of Pardess Rimonim, as an afterthought, there appears a page of mystical intentions, entitled "Kavanoth Koleloth" In a sense, RaMa"K (R. Moses Cordovero) [1522-1570] did for Kabbalah what Maimonides did for Halacha: He provided a systematic code. However upon Cordovero's death, his carefully constructed system of Kabbalah, would be left behind by the new revolutionary Lurianic Kabbalah of his younger contemporary in Safed, AR"I (R. Isaac Luria). See G. Scholem, Kabbalah (1974), pp. 401-404