Vital, Chaim. Eitz Chaim [“Tree of Life”: Canon of Lurianic Kabbalah]

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: $400

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author

(KABBALAH).

printer

Johann Anton Krieger

Place

Koretz

Publication

1784

Description

Title within architectural columns. On title, stamp of former owner. Marginalium on f.9v. refers to a manuscript version

references

Vinograd, Koretz 33; A. Tauber, “Defusei Koretz” in Bibliographical Studies (1932), p. 25, no. 20

summary

The book bears the haskamah of the preeminent kabbalist R. Chaim of Tsanz of the renowned “Broder Klaus,” as well as that of the chassidic sage R. Jacob Joseph of Ostraha (“Rav Yeivi”). Until the appearance of the Koretz edition, copies of Vital’s Etz Chaim circulated in numerous manuscripts. One of our approbations points out that as a result, all sorts of erroneous emendations had crept into the text

ff. (1), 4, 135. ff. 133-4 repeated twice. Stains. Folio

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