Shoshan sodot : ... sodot ʻamuḳim ....
שושן סודות : ... סודות עמוקים ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moses ben Jacob, of Kiev, 1449-approximately 1520, attributed name.

Contributor:

Krieger, Johann Anton, printer.

Rare Judaica Acquisitions Fund.

tuǧras.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Cabala--Texts.

Cabala.

Sefirot (Cabala).

Tetragrammaton.

Penn Provenance:

Parḥi, Shelomoh ben Yaʻaḳov (autograph) (Kislak BM525 .A39 1784)

Physical Description:

92, [2] leaves : illustration, charts ; 21 cm (4to)

Manufacture:

Nidpas poh ḳ.ḳ. Ḳorets, taḥat memshelet adonenu ha-meyuḥas ha-gadol ... Yozef Ṭsharṭerisḳi Sṭalniḳ Liṭeṿsḳi Sṭarasṭi Lotsḳi yar.h. : In der preṿelegirṭe druḳeraye fon den hern Yohn Anṭon Ḳriger oiś Ṿarśoi, 5544 [that is, 1783 or 1784]

נדפס פה קארעץ, תחת ממשלת אדוננו המיוחס הגדול... יוזיף טשארטריסקי סטאלניק ליטעווסקי סטאראסטי לאצקי יר"ה : אין דער דרוקרייא פון דען הערן יאהן אנטאן קריגר אויש ווארשוי, בשנת ס'ו'ד' ה' ליראיו וברית'ו להוד'יע'ם לפ"ק

Notes:

Reigning monarch mentioned in imprint -- Józef Klemens Czartoryski (1740-1810; his title: Grand Stalininkas of Lithuania, Wójt of Łuki). Printer Johann Anton Krieger 'of Warsaw' (title page; at this time he operated a press near Warsaw in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki; see: Ringelblum, Emanuel. Johann Anton Krieger, Printer of Jewish Books in Nowy Dwór, in Polin, volume 12).

Attributed in the Shulḥan ʻarukh Ari (by Isaac Luria) to a 13th century cabalist and student of Nahamanides (title page); scholarly attribution follows a manuscript attribution to Moses ben Jacob of Kiev; see: Liberman, Chaim. Ohel Rahel, volume 1, page 93-104 (the work was composed in Crimea, following his expulsion with the 1495 expulsion of Jews from Lithuania by Alexander Jagiellon, after which he was ransomed by the Crimean Tartars, circa 1505).

Signatures: [alif]-[khaf gimel]⁴ [chi]².

For authorship cf. Kiryat sefer, v. 1, p. 303.

Illustration: The text of a circular amulet for the abjuration of enemy persecution ("וזה העיגול אשר יתבאר ענינו במה שיבא פי העיגול הסתום" -- f. [tet]1, recto; explanation below, "סוד אם תרצה לבטל עצת צר ואויב אשר נסוטהו....").

Includes a selection of Maimonides' responsa and epistles (an epistle regarding the study of Cabala attributed to Maimonides; "אמר המחבר מצאתי אגרת ... שלוחה מהרמב"ם ... לתלמידו ... רבי יוסף זלה"ה וקראה מגלה עמוקות" -- l. [ḥet]3, recto.

Local Notes:

Kislak BM525 .A39 1784: Complete; in contemporary leather binding; some water damage and staining. Purchased from Kestenbaum & Co., Auction 60 lot 193 (acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rare Judaica Acquisitions Fund); tuǧras of Shelomoh ben Yaʻaḳov Parḥi (שלמה בן יעקב פרחי ס"ט).

Cited in:

Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri (Thesaurus of the Hebrew Book), Korzec 38

Tauber, A. Madpise Korets, in Kiryat Sefer 1, 23

Yudlov, Y. Israel Mehlman collection in the Jewish National and University Library, 1091

Contains:

Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204. Correspondence. Selections.

OCLC:

19169060

Bound With:

Bound with: Book of temunah. 5544 (1784 : Koret︠s︡ʹ, Ukraine).

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