Ma’ayanoth HaChochmah [“The Wellsprings of Wisdom.”]

AUCTION 68 | Thursday, April 07th, 2016 at 1:00

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Lot 112

BUZAGLO, MORDECHAI.

Ma’ayanoth HaChochmah [“The Wellsprings of Wisdom.”]

Manuscript in Hebrew, written in a semi-cursive Sephardic hand on paper. ff. 28 (copyist ends in middle of a sentence.) Lightly stained, remnants of previous owners stamps on opening and closing leaves. Later sheep, rubbed. 12mo.

Morocco: 18th century

Est: $1,500 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $2,750

<<Unpublished manuscript.>> A Kabbalistic treatise on the hidden meaning of the orthography of the Torah. Mordechai Buzaglo composed this text in Dara, Morocco, but kept it hidden (G. Scholem, Kabbalah p. 69). Known to predict the future, the author traveled to Safed and after becoming acquainted with R. Chaim Vital merited Gilui Eliyahu (see Chid’a, Shem HaGedolim). The introduction here contains unusual personal details of R. Buzaglo’s initiation into the wellsprings of Kabbalah aged 36 and the difficulties that subsequently ensued. For more details concerning this work, see R. Elior, Mekubalei Dar’a, Pe’amim 24 (1985) pp. 40, 60-65; and see Yosef ibn Naim, Malchei Rabanan pp. 86-87.