Manuscript, Sefer HaShemot, Practical Kabbalah, with Additions – Europe, 19th Century

Manuscript, Sefer HaShemot, Practical Kabbalah, with Additions – Europe, 19th Century

Manuscript, Sefer HaShemot – lexicon of practical kabbalah – hashbaot, Holy Names, letter combinations, amulets and segulot, with additional selections. [Eastern Europe, 19th century].
Neat Ashkenazic script, with kabbalistic illustrations and diagrams.
The manuscript is mostly comprised of the work Sefer HaShemot, attributed to R. Moshe Zacuto – the Remez (see below). This is followed by copyings on various topics – segulot, amulets and hashbaot, lists of names of angels with illustrations of their seals, and more.
Sefer HaShemot, better known as Shorshei HaShemot, is a comprehensive work on the Holy Names, with a detailed description of their functions and use in hashbaot and amulets. The work is formatted as an alphabetical encyclopedic lexicon, and includes thousands of Holy Names and kabbalistic name combinations, as well as much practical kabbalah. The core of the work was composed by the kabbalist R. Moshe Zacuto – the Remez, and it includes kabbalistic secrets he received from his teachers. It was later expanded upon in different redactions. This is the Ashkenazi redaction, which differs from the many North African redactions of the work (see item no. 21).

[46] leaves (presumably lacking several leaves at beginning and end). 22.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Worming, affecting text in some places. All margins restored with paper. New binding.

Reference: Windows on Jewish Worlds, Essays in Honor of William Gross Collector of Judaica. Zutphen, Walburg Pers. 2019, p. 187.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, EE.011.043.