Sefer HaZohar – Important Edition.
Sulzbach, 1684.
Beautiful Copy.
Sefer HaZohar, edited precisely according to early printings, writings of the Arizal and the Ramak, old manuscript versions, and important explanations.
A fundamental and extremely important edition. The famous Amsterdam printer Shlomo Proops writes in his introduction to Sefer HaZohar (Amsterdam, 1715)
"that the Sulzbach printing… is more accurate than all before it."
Rare Latin Pages:
At the beginning of the sefer is a Latin title page and also a government license in Latin. These two leaves are rare and missing in many copies! In his introduction, the printer apologizes for printing Latin text at the beginning of this holy sefer, but explains they did so "so they should not make false accusations against us". This is likely the reason these pages were torn out over time from most copies.
The Sulzbach edition combines the two first printings of the Zohar – Mantua and Cremona. It is fundamentally based on the Cremona and Lublin editions with completions from the Mantua edition, incorporating old and precise versions (in parentheses) and page references to the Cremona and Mantua editions.
This is the last edition of Sefer HaZohar printed according to the Cremona edition; from here onward the Zohar was printed according to the Mantua edition.
Printed in the margins for the first time together with the Zohar is the sefer ‘Imrei Binah’ by the mekubal Rabbi Yissachar Ber of Kremnitz (Prague, 1611). Attached to this Zohar is the sefer ‘Pesach Einayim’, an index to all the verses in Tanach found in the Zohar by Rabbi Eliezer Sternberg (Krakow, 1647). This is the only time this sefer was attached to the Zohar.
The last page boasts an illustration of the Tree of Sefiros spanning the entire page.
Sulzbach, 1684.
Page Count: [6], 132; 72, 71-108; 128; 16 leaves. (The sefer Pesach Einayim containing 16 leaves is attached to the beginning of this sefer.)
Size: 33.5 cm.
Condition: Thick sefer in good condition, few holes and repairs to inner margins, bound in new leather binding. The sefer opens with a beautiful copper-engraved title page.
