❧ Description
Major manuscript of the Ramhal (Moshe Ḥayyim Luzzatto, 1707-1747), the Paduan kabbalist, containing the Tikkunim ḥadashim — “New Corrections,” a kabbalistic composition in the tradition of the Zohar. The manuscript includes an autograph of the Ramhal on folio 123, dated 1734, and was copied by Jacob Shalom in Padua around 1730. It is one of the flagship pieces of the Reggio collection and a foremost witness to the Ramhal's kabbalistic œuvre.
Provenance: 1 Ramhal autograph (fol. 123, 1734) 2 Paduan circle of the Ramhal 3 Isaac Samuel Reggio Library (1784-1855) 4 Bodleian Library, since 1853
Codicological notice — origin Padua, Veneto, Italy; copyist: Jacob Shalom; script: Italian; old catalogues: Neubauer Catalogue 1886 · 1901; editorial status: to be confirmed.
— Source: Mémoires des Manuscrits Juifs du Moyen-Âge Maghrébin (MMJMM / Collectif GMPL), https://mmjmm.org/corpus/catalogue/bodleian-ms-reggio-31; manuscript held at the Bodleian Library (Oxford).
