Auction 27 - Books, Manuscripts and Rabbinical Letters

Etz Chaim – Korets, 1785 – Kabbalistic Glosses

Opening: $400
Sold for: $1,625
Including buyer's premium
Etz Chaim, the Arizal's doctrine written by his disciple Rabbi Chaim Vital. Korets, [1785].
Self-dedication on book's title page: "This is borrowed from… Rabbi Gavriel Pinto with the book Pri Etz Chaim and I gave him instead the book Avudraham, Ya'akov Abadi".
The book sheets have dozens of kabbalistic glosses [some long] in Oriental handwriting [some slightly cutoff] and several glosses in Ashkenazi handwriting.
132 leaves. 32.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, moth marks. Title page and several leaves have tears with restorations of pasted paper. Worn and detached binding.
Glosses
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