❧ Description
Maghrebi copy in Sephardic rabbinic script of the Etz Ḥayyim — the canonical work of Lurianic Kabbalah transmitted by Ḥayyim Vital (1542-1620), direct disciple of the Ari (Yiṣḥaq Luria) at Safed. The manuscript preserves the fifth part of the collection, with a final index of the biblical and Zoharic passages cited. Colophon dated 6 Ṭevet 5470 = 1709 at Fez. Copyist: "Yiṣḥaq ben Yaish"; recipient: "R. Avraham".
Provenance: 1 Copied at Fez by Yiṣḥaq ben Yaish for R. Avraham, completed 6 Ṭevet 5470 = 1709 2 Heimann Joseph Michael collection (1792-1846), Hamburg 3 Bodleian Library, 1848
Codicological note — origin Fez, central Morocco; copyist: Yiṣḥaq ben Yaish; script: Sephardic; leaves: 230 folios; dimensions: in-4°; early catalogues: Neubauer Catalogue 1886 · 1690; editorial status: Unpublished.
— Source: Mémoires des Manuscrits Juifs du Moyen-Âge Maghrébin (MMJMM / Collectif GMPL), https://mmjmm.org/corpus/catalogue/bodleian-mich-171; manuscript held at the Bodleian Library (Oxford).
