Sefer Maʼor ṿa-shemesh ...
‏ספר מאור ושמש ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coriat, Judah, author, compiler, editor, writer of introduction.

Ḳoriyaṭ, Avraham, active 18th century, author.

Contributor:

Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.

Alfalo, Isaac, active 19th century, associated name, former owner.

Al-Maliḥ, Shelomoh ibn Zekharyah, associated name, former owner.

Al-Maliḥ, Shemʻayah, associated name, former owner.

Al-Maliḥ, Shem Ṭov, associated name, former owner.

Dwek, Avraham ha-kohen, writer of introduction.

Alḳayam, Daṿid, writer of introduction.

Pinto, Shelomoh, writer of introduction.

Almaliaḥ, Yosef, writer of introduction.

Coriat, Abraham, 1800-1845, writer of introduction.

Benamozegh, Elia, 1823-1900, writer of introduction.

Leone, Yehoshuaʻ, writer of approbation.

Shemuʼel Ḥayim ʻAzaryah, active 19th century, writer of approbation.

Piperno, Avraham Barukh, writer of approbation.

Castelnuovo, Menahem Azariah Meir ben Elijah, -1847, writer of approbation.

Adadi, Abraham Ḥayyim ben Masoud Ḥai, -1874, writer of approbation.

Oṭolingi, Eliʻezer Menaḥem, printer.

Livorno Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Library at the Katz Center Special Collections (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Aleinu le-shabbe'aḥ.

Sefirot (Cabala).

Cabala.

Genre:

Commentaries.

Piyutim.

Literature.

Anthologies.

compilations (arranged works)

Physical Description:

[1], 11, [1], 128 leaves ; 21 cm

Manufacture:

Poh Li or na [that is, Livorno] : ba-defus Eliʻezer Menaḥem Oṭolengi, [5]599 [1839 December]

‏פה לי אור נא :‏ ‏בדפוס אליעזר מנחם אוטולינגי, ‏ בסדר ויגש אליו יהודה ‏ובשנת לא ימוש התורה ה'ז'ה' מ'פ'י'ך' ו'ה'ג'י'ת' ב'ו'

Notes:

With introductions by Elijah Benamozegh and Abraham b. Judah Coriat.

Approbations -- Livorno rabbis (undersigned by Menahem Azaria Castelnuovo, Yehoshuaʻ Leone, Shemuʼel Ḥayim ʻAzaryah, and Avraham Barukh Piperno) ; Avraham Ḥayim Adadi of Tripoli ; Mogador [Essaouira] rabbis (undersigned by Shelomoh Pinto and Yosef Almaliaḥ) and Daṿid Alḳayam ; and Avraham ha-kohen Dwek of Tiberias. Introductions - Elia Benamozegh, Abraham Coriat, and compiler and editor Judah Coriat.

Contains : a Cabalistic commentary on the Aleinu le-shabbe'aḥ (attributed to Hai Gaon ; "וזה נוסח האגרת ששלח רבינו האיי ז"ל לרבנו האי ארנלק אשר בסוף ים מערב בארץ הודו") ; piyutim composed by Abraham and Judah Coriat ; verse on the Sefirot (beginning ארומם אל אחד, by Aharon ibn Yosef ibn Yivgi ; see Scholem) ; Sefer Ha-malkhut (by David ha-levi of Seville) ; Keter Shem ṭov, also known as Perush Sodot ha-Torah (attributed to Nahamanides, edited by Yeḥiʼel Luria Ashkenazi in the 16th century) ; and Beʼur ʻal Ḥamishah Ḥumshe Torah by Judah ben Jacob ibn Attar, with Judah Coriat's additions.

Ottolenghi printer's device - escutcheon below crown, with lion rampant, standing and holding a sheaf of wheat, with גור אריה יהודה on bottom -- title page verso.

Local Notes:

Libra Katz Rare BM525 .M27 1839 complete ; purchased at auction (Winner's Auctions, Jerusalem, auction 119, 2020 January 28, lot 247 ; acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund) ; inscribed by Moroccan Jewish merchant and envoy Isaac Aflalo (יצחק אפלאלו ס"ט) with additional gift inscriptions of donation to a Yemeni emissary named Shelomoh ibn Zekharyah Al-Maliḥ, Ṭevet 5642 (December 1881-January 1882 ; "לאות ולזכרון -- לע"ה שלמה ן' זכריה אלמליח מתושבי ערי תימן יע"א חדש טבת ש' תרמ"ב", with an additional inscription to his sons Shemʻayah and Shem Ṭov ("הצב"י שלמה ן' זכריה ובניו שמעיה ושם טוב כולם הי"ו" ; likely living in Al-Mlayh, Yemen ; Tobi, Yossef. Entsyklopedya la-Kehilot Yehude Teman, pages 322-3, 359).

Cited in:

Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri, Livorno 872

Bodleian Library. Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, 5735 : 1

Gottlieb, Efraim. Meḥḳarim ba-sifrut ha-Ḳabalah, pages 248-249

Scholem, Gershon. Mafteaḥ le-ferushim shel Eśer Sefirot, in Kiryat Sefer, 10 (1933-4), page 500, number 15

Contains:

Naḥmanides, approximately 1195-approximately 1270, Keter Shem ṭov., attributed name.

Luria Ashkenazi, Yeḥiʼel, active 16th century, editor.

Haleṿi, Daṿid, active 15th century. Sefer Ha-malkhut.

Yivgi, Aharon ibn Yosef, active 16th-17th century. Eromem El eḥad yaḥid nora le-vado.

Hai ben Sherira, 939-1038, Perush ʻAlenu le-shabeaḥ., attributed name.

Attar, Judah ben Jacob ibn, 1655-1733. Beʼur ʻal Ḥamishah Ḥumshe Torah.

OCLC:

49746603