Manuscript, Otzrot Chaim, by R. Chaim Vital, handwritten by scribe R. Eliyahu son of R. Baba David. [Persia], 1737.

Oriental script. On last leaf, colophon of scribe. One other copying of Otzrot Chaim by the same scribe is known from 1743 in Golpayegan, for the famous Torah scholar Mullah Or Shraga.

At the end of Otzrot Chaim, the scribe copied an additional three studies from the Mahadura Batra of R. Chaim Vital edited by R. Yaakov Tzemach. On margins of leaves, handwritten glosses by scribe. His signature appears on one of the leaves: "Eliyahu son of David".

The present manuscript is lacking at the beginning (although most of the work is present). At the beginning is mounted a leaf in another hand, which is known to us as that of the forger Yitzchak son of Shmuel of Persia. The leaf handwritten by Yitzchak son of Shmuel contains the "secret of Gan Eden" and an unknown Ilan Sefirot illustration. In the margins of the leaf is the catchword of the following page, from the middle of Otzrot Chaim, in the handwriting of the author of the main manuscript. Apparently, the forger attempted to thereby give it the appearance of an unknown manuscript.

On leaf [3] is bound another leaf in another hand (from the manuscript of Pri Etz Chaim), apparently also concocted to give the same impression.

On the blank page on one of the first leaves appear family inscriptions, including one on the birth of a son to the scribe, and one on the death of a physician.

[119] leaves (one leaf lacking about half). Several leaves lacking at beginning and middle of manuscript. Approx. 20 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, tears and wear. Open tears affecting text of several leaves. Detached leaves. Binding detached and damaged.