Auction 52
Lot 191:
3 Volumes of the Zohar on the Torah by Rabbi Shimon bar Yochay, featuring glosses of the Ari edited by Rabi Shalom Buzaglo, with an introduction by the latter. Title pages: “As in the Amsterdam edition printed by Yochanan Levi and his son Binyamin in 1805.” But according to Gershom Scholem: “printed in Krotoszyn, 1844-45, based on the conclusion by the printer at the end of Sefer Shmot, in which the following bolded letters form an abbreviation: ‘I Dov Beer Monos with Benzion my son-in-law in Krotoszyn’. And elsewhere: ‘with a close eye I proofread, and filled in anything missing and the marei mekomot of verses…[1844].”.
Section 1: Bereishit—[3], 251, 19 leaves.
Section 2: Exodus—280 leaves.
Section 3: Vayikra—115 leaves.
Part 4: Bamidbar and Devarim—[1], 117-311, [12] leaves. 12 last leaves include: “Indices from the Zohar Gadol and Zohar Chadash and corrections”.
(The copy in the National Library has, printed on leaf 311 of part 2, the bolded letters referred to above—this copy does not have).
Dark stains, worming holes, one volume has detached binding without spine, lone bits of tape, overall fair to good condition.
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