(Saks da Castellazzo) (Editor). Heichal Hashem [collected essays by early Kabbalists].

A compilation of various Kabbalistic works, including a treatise on reincarnation according to the views of R. Shimon b. Yochai and Pythagoras (f. 36r.), writings of R. Joseph Gikatilla (f. 38r.), Shem Tov Gaon (f. 41r.) and R. Isaac Luria (ff. 44r., 46v. -47r.) The 16th-century Kabbalistic author was a member of the Castellazzo family, who were of German origin and settled in Castellazzo Bormida, near Alessandria in Northern Italy. R. Yechiel resided in Austria, Salonika and Safed, before settling in Jerusalem in 1565. (EJ V, col. 237). Contains one of the earliest printed versions of the hymn Bar-Yochai by the Tripolitan Kabbalist R. Simeon Labi (ff. 44v. -45r.).