Auction 102 Part 1
Hebrew Manuscripts and Books from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection
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LOT 25:
Manuscript, Otzrot Chaim and Selections on Kabbalah – Italy, 18th Century – Ilanot Sefirot and Kabbalistic Diagrams
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Manuscript, Otzrot Chaim and Selections on Kabbalah – Italy, 18th Century – Ilanot Sefirot and Kabbalistic Diagrams
Manuscript, Otzrot Chaim and selections on kabbalah, with glosses of R. Moshe Zacuto, R. Binyamin Kohen and other kabbalists. [Italy, 18th century].
Italian cursive script, with fine layout. The present manuscript is a fine copying originating from the circle of R. Moshe Zacuto (the Ramaz) and his disciple R. Binyamin Kohen (the Rabach). At the top of the first page: "Otzrot Chaim – fine flour and true kabbalah by R. Chaim Vital, from the mouth of R. Yitzchak Ashkenazi" (on the expression "fine flour" see: R. Yosef Avivi, "Solet Nekiyah – The Sieve of Rabbi Moshe Zacuto", Pe'amim 96 [2003], pp. 71-106 [Hebrew]). The glosses of R. Moshe Zacuto (many of which are entitled "Kol HaRamaz") and other kabbalists were incorporated by the scribe in thinner, smaller script inside "windows". Apart from the glosses of R. Moshe Zacuto, there are glosses of his disciple R. Binyamin Kohen, R. Natan Shapiro, R. Yehonatan Sagis and others.
R. Binyamin Kohen (d. 1730) is mentioned in some glosses with a blessing for the deceased, and in several glosses he is named "my teacher" (for example, on leaves 7, 23b).
Otzrot Chaim appears on leaves 1-95. Leaves 61-62 contain rudimentary Ilan Sefirot diagrams, and leaves 66-67 contain very detailed Ilanot.
On leaves 65-72: "Klalim found in the handwriting of R. Chaim Vital" – 79 principles, beginning with "The distinction between Olam HaBa and LeAtid Lavo". On leaves 75-94 – additional studies from the kabbalah of R. Chaim Vital: Drush HaMem Bet, Shaar Mochin DeKatnut, Shaar HaBerur, Drush Nishmat Adam, Drush Chet Adam VeToladto, and other selections.
Beginning on leaf 96, with a divisional title page: "Drush Cheftzi Bah… by R. Yosef Maaravi [ibn Tabul]".
[106] leaves. 29.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including large dampstains, with some smudging of ink and partial fading of letters. Old leather binding, with damage.
