SEFER HA-PELI'AH (kabbalistic pseudepigraphic work on the Biblical account of Creation). MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER [Central or Eastern Europe, 17th century] 2 o (290 x 180 mm). 196 leaves. Light brown ink. Ashkenazic semi-cursive script. (Dampstaining, quite a few passages faded, affecting readability, with recent and older repairs, affecting the text.) Modern blind and gold-tooled red morocco, two modern paper flyleaves at back and front, matching slipcase. CONTENTS: A kabbalistic pseudepigraphic work on the Biblical account of Creation, attributed to the grandson of Nehuniah ben Ha-Kanah, but actually composed in Byzance, probably in the early fifteenth century by the anonymous author of Sefer ha-Kanah . See M. Kushnir-Oron, The Sefer ha-Peli'ah and the Sefer ha-Kanah (Jerusalem 1980). First printed in Korets 1784 (Vinograd, Thesaurus , p. 600, no. 34). The work exists in dozens of manuscripts, the earliest dating to the mid-fifteenth century. The introduction was not copied. PROVENANCE: Meshullam Zalman Neumark (at end). REFERENCES: Neubauer, no. 68, p. 24; Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, Jerusalem, F 4735.
SEFER HA-PELI'AH (kabbalistic pseudepigraphic work on the Biblical account of Creation). MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER [Central or Eastern Europe, 17th century] 2 o (290 x 180 mm). 196 leaves. Light brown ink. Ashkenazic semi-cursive script. (Dampstaining, quite a few passages faded, affecting readability, with recent and older repairs, affecting the text.) Modern blind and gold-tooled red morocco, two modern paper flyleaves at back and front, matching slipcase. CONTENTS: A kabbalistic pseudepigraphic work on the Biblical account of Creation, attributed to the grandson of Nehuniah ben Ha-Kanah, but actually composed in Byzance, probably in the early fifteenth century by the anonymous author of Sefer ha-Kanah . See M. Kushnir-Oron, The Sefer ha-Peli'ah and the Sefer ha-Kanah (Jerusalem 1980). First printed in Korets 1784 (Vinograd, Thesaurus , p. 600, no. 34). The work exists in dozens of manuscripts, the earliest dating to the mid-fifteenth century. The introduction was not copied. PROVENANCE: Meshullam Zalman Neumark (at end). REFERENCES: Neubauer, no. 68, p. 24; Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, Jerusalem, F 4735.
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