(TRADITIONALLY ATTRIBUTED TO. Publicized by R. Moses b. Shem Tov de Leon). Sepher ha-Zohar [“The Book of Splendor”]

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $700

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author

SHIMON B”R YOCHAI

printer

Jonah ben Jacob Aschkenazi

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1736

Description

Five parts in three volumes. With ownership notation by R. Jonathan Eybuschetz of Kotzk and Lashitz

references

Vinograd Const. 472; Yaari Const. 357

summary

The publisher notes that the text for this edition was composed after consulting R. Chaim Vital's personal copy of the Zohar as well as other contemporaneous manuscripts and so including in this edition material heretofore unseen

ff. 2, 251, 18; 1, 279; 309. Ex-library, slight marginal repair on some pages, some staining. Gilt-tooled calf, rubbed. 4to

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