Lot 55
Zohar Shemot - Mantova, 1558 – Glosses
Sefer HaZohar, by Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, Part 2, Shemot. [Mantova, 1558]. First printing of the Zohar, [Since the beginning of the Hebrew printing, rabbis had not permitted the printing of the Zohar. While the Zohar was still being printed in Mantova, Cremona printers also began printing the Zohar and the last parts were printed in Cremona before the Mantova edition was finished].
Kabbalistic glosses and corrections in Oriental scribal writing. Signatures and inscriptions in a later handwriting [Persia?/ Bukhara?], by "Shlomo ben Moshe HaLevi ---".
(Incomplete copy) only leaves 16-263 (from the original 269 leaves). Approximately 20 cm. Fair condition, major damages to margins. Stains and worm holes. Unbound.
