Sefer HaLikutim [collection of kabbalistic writings]

VITAL, CHAIM.

Tunisia(?)

1757

Manuscript in Hebrew, written in cursive Sephardic hand on paper. Copyist: Shalom ben Israel Bashmut.

A collection of writings by R. Chaim Vital with additions and subtractions. The scribe records that he copied this manuscript from an earlier text dated 1680. The opening 12 leaves include novellae to Zoharic texts that are recorded as being from Jonathan Eyebeschuetz - an important attribution not previously known. The final three leaves of the manuscript include kavanoth applicable for certain mitzvoth, including that of immersion and are here attributed to Nathan of Gaza. How these found their way into a compilation of R. Chaim Vital would suggest that the original manuscript from which this was copied had been owned by a Sabbatian.