Sefer Derekh emet.
ספר דרך אמת.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ḥamiẓ, Joseph ben Judah, -approximately 1676, author, compiler.

Contributor:

Luria, Isaac ben Solomon, 1534-1572, associated name.

Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542 or 1543-1620, associated name.

Zacuto, Moses ben Mordecai, approximately 1620-1697, editor.

Bragadin, Girolamo, printer.

J. Kauffmann Antiquariat, associated name, former owner.

Annenberg Research Institute, associated name, former owner.

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, associated name, former owner.

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

Language:

Aramaic

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Zohar--Criticism, Textual.

Zohar.

Tikkunei Zohar--Criticism, Textual.

Tikkunei Zohar.

Physical Description:

36, 30, 79 leaves ; 21 cm (4to)

Manufacture:

[Venice, Italy] : [Girolamo Bragadin], [5418, that is, 1657 or 1658]

Language Note:

In Aramaic and Hebrew.

Notes:

Title from caption.

Gershom Scholem cites one copy with a title page "Ḥeleḳ rishon me-Sefer Or nogah...", now in the Scholem Collection, stating that Sefer Derekh Emet and Yodʻe binah were to be volume one of Sefer Or nogah, and volume two (under the title Sefer Rosh Yosef) to contain Sefer Or ʻolam and Sefer Tevuʼot shemesh; see also Tishby.

Printed without a title page; printer from Heller (Girolamo Bragadin printed Ḥamiẓ's edition of Zohar ḥadash concurrently with Derekh emet).

Signatures: [alif]1-[khaf]20⁴ [khaf alif]21⁴ (-[khaf alif]21, 4]).

Local Notes:

Libra Katz Rare BM525 H34 1658 complete; rebound (marbled paper on boards), with pasted handwritten spine label. Formerly Dropsie / Annenberg ; "J. KAUFFMANN VERLAG & ANTIQUARIAT, FRANKFURT A.M. SCHILLERSTR. 19" (pasted label).

Cited in:

Heller, M. The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book, page 787

Scholem, G. Sabbatai Sevi, 631–632, note 5

Tishby, Isaiah. The Messianic Enthusiast Joseph Hamiz [in Hebrew], Zion 39 (1974), 83–84, note 300

Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri, Venice, 1338

Publications about:

Libowitz, Nehemiah S. Saridim mi-kitve R. Yosef Hamits (Jerusalem : Darom, 1937)

OCLC:

1007744282