Kan Tzipor [kabbalistic treatise]

FANO, MENACHEM AZARIAH DA.

1871

Manuscript in Hebrew, written in a fine rabbinic hand on paper. Multi-colored pen-and-ink title-page. From the library of RABBI NACHUM DOV-BER FRIEDMAN OF SADIGUR, signed by him on pink opening blank and with his two alternating stamps on title.

N. Ben Menachem, Aresheth vol. 1, p. 399-400, no 4.

Copied from an older Prague manuscript by the scribe, Dov Berel b. Yitzchak Aryeh of Zolishtchick (Bukowina). With a preface by the copyist concerning the original manuscript and the previous copyists. UNPUBLISHED work; a shortened version of “Kanfei Yonah,” published in Koretz, 1786. According to Ben Yaakov, Otzar Hasepharim (p. 530 no. 393) a similar manuscript is found in the Oppenheim collection, Oxford.