SEFER SHAAREY ORA. SHAAREI ORAH

Joseph ben Avraham Gikatilia [born 1248]

Edité par Naftali ha-kohen me-Gazolo, Naftali Cohen Gazzolo, Mantua, 1561

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In Hebrew. 92 leaves. 206 x 150 mm. The last line in the book gives the date on which, presumably, the printing started: the 20th day in the month of Tamuz in the year [5]321. This represents 14 July 1561. but there is the issue of calendar conversions of dates prior to 1752 when the Gregorian calendar started replacing the Julian calendar is some places. So the 14 July date might be ten days off. Censor inked out words throughout. Title within architectural columns. This is supposedly the second edition. It was published a few months after the Riva di Trento edition, but still in the same year. Sha'arei Orah, a work roughly contemporaneous with the publication of the Zohar, was written by the Spanish kabbalist Joseph Gikatilla toward the end of the 13th-century. It has served countless generations of aspiring students as a systematic primer of Kabbalah, working its way through the Sefiroth in ascending order, with Malchuth (Kingdom) as the primary, and Kether (Crown) as the final Sefirah. The last two pages of the book has the censor's inscriptions with a date: 168[?]. There are some other inscriptions in Hebrew not yet completely deciphered. Vinograd Thesaurus 84. Zedner, page 329. Steinschneider C.B. 5923 number 9 page 1456. STC page 301.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: SEFER SHAAREY ORA. SHAAREI ORAH
• Éditeur: Naftali ha-kohen me-Gazolo, Naftali Cohen Gazzolo, Mantua
• Date de parution: 1561
• Langue: hébreu
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Very Good +++
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Judaica