Bidspirit auction | ZACUTO, MOSHE. Tikkun Erev Rosh

ZACUTO, MOSHE. Tikkun Erev Rosh Chodesh. With: Tikkun Shovevim. Manuscript in Hebrew, written on paper in an Italian square and rabbinic hand in brown ink. An early owner “Yonathan Kolon” inscribes and signs on last page. pp. 72. Variously stained. Recent boards. 8vo. (Mantua, Italy), 17th-century. Liturgical and meditative Kabbalah-derived incantations prepared by R. Moses Zacuto (1625-97), of whom the introductory page notes “his merit protects our city” (punning on his name of Zacuto (Heb. “Zechuto.”).  Rabbi Moses Zacuto (also known as Zacut) was born into a Converso family who settled in Amsterdam, where he studied under Rabbi Shaul HaLevi Morteira. A mystic by inclination, he then studied Kabbalah under the tutelage of a student of Rabbi Hayyim Vital, Rabbi Benjamin HaLevi.