Tikunei Zohar. Mantua: Meir son of Efraim of Padua and Yaakov son of Naftali HaKohen of Gazzuolo, 1557. First edition.

First edition of Tikunei Zohar, a kabbalistic work attributed to R. Shimon bar Yochai and his companions, including seventy explanations or permutations for the word Bereshit. This edition was edited by R. Imanuel of Benevento based on ten manuscript copies. The editor added eleven additional Tikunim he had found (leaves 137-146; these Tikunim were copied from Zohar Chadash), which were henceforth printed in all editions.

At the beginning of the book are four halachic rulings permitting the printing of the Zohar and Tikunei Zohar.

On the last leaf, signature of the censor Camillo Jaghel, dated 1629.

[4], 146, [2] leaves. 21.5 cm. Good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Worming, slightly affecting title frame. Marginal open tears to several leaves. Tear affecting text on one leaf. Early binding, damaged.

On the printing of the Zohar and Tikunei Zohar, see: Y. Tishbi, The Zohar Controversy in 16th-Century Italy, Perakim, I, 1967-1968, pp. 131-182 (Hebrew).

CB, no. 3492; Zedner, p. 707.