Sepher Ha’nikud Ve’sod Ha’chashmal [mystical treatises on vocalization, grammar, the “Higher Letters” and the mystical secrets within the revelations of Ezekiel]

Estimate

$800–$1,200

Hammer price

$1,300

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author

(GIKATILLA, JOSEPH)

Place

n.p.

Publication

18th Century

Description

Hebrew manuscript in Aschkenazi cursive century script. Brown ink on paper.

summary

Sepher Ha’nikud: ff. 1-26b. Sod Ha’chashmal: ff. 27a-34b. Should be compared to the published version. Also includes a mystical commentary by Menachem Azariah of Fano on the verse; “Your dead shall live, my dead bodies shall arise” (Isaiah 26:19) on ff. 35a-36b. Gershon Scholem (Kitvei Yad Be’kabbala) does not list any other manuscript of these works. Both Joseph Gikatilla and Menachem Azariah of Fano were profound kabbalists whose works are some of the most detailed, yet lucid, systematic expositions of Kabbalistic concepts.

ff. (36), excluding blanks. Lightly browned. Later blind tooled morocco boards, rebacked, rubbed. Sm. 8vo

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