Auction 93 Part 1 - Manuscripts, Prints and Engravings, Objects and Facsimiles, from the Gross Family Collection, and Private Collections

Manuscript, Perush Divrei HaSaba – From the Book Or Yakar by the Remak – Yemen, 1706

Opening: $750
Sold for: $2,500
Including buyer's premium

Manuscript, Perush Divrei HaSaba – copying from the book Or Yakar by R. Moshe Cordovero – the Remak. [Yemen, 1706].
Neat Yemenite script, in two columns.
Title page dated 1706. Ownership inscription (unsigned) at the foot of the title page, dated 1707.
Brief marginal glosses and notes in some places, by various writers (ca. 18th century).
Or Yakar is commentary to the Zohar of exceptionally wide scope, by R. Moshe Cordovero. It remained in manuscript form throughout the generations, and was only published in 1962–2009, in dozens of volumes. The commentary to Divrei HaSaba in Parashat Mishpatim was published in vol. XXI (1991), with minor textual variations compared to the present manuscript. The manuscript ends in the middle of the final section (17, p. 77), and is presumably lacking one or two leaves.


76 leaves. 21 cm. Good condition. Worming, with some damage to text. Tears and minor open tears, primarily marginal, with slight damage to text on one leaf. Inscriptions. New binding, with worming.


Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, YM.011.006.

Yemenite Jewry – Manuscripts
Yemenite Jewry – Manuscripts