Kabbalah · R' David ben Yehuda he-Ḥasid · R' Shlomo Alkabetz (glossator) · 15th c. · Spain · Codex · Glosses · Manicule · Miscellany

אור זרוע ... [ועוד] — עם הגהות רבי שלמה אלקבץ

Or Zaru'a (and other works) — with glosses by R' Shlomo Alkabetz

15th c. · The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary

A 15th-century Sefardic semi-cursive kabbalistic miscellany centered on R' David ben Yehuda he-Ḥasid's Or Zaru'a (folios 1–99), with selections from the Zohar including the Idra Rabba, the Ra'avad's commentary on Sefer Yetzirah, R' Yosef Gikatilla's Sha'ar ha-Niḳud, and shorter works by R' Eleazar of Worms, R' Moshe ben Yaakov of Kiev, and R' Shem Tov Ibn Shem Tov. The codex carries marginal glosses throughout in the hand of R' Shlomo Alkabetz (1505–1584) — author of Lecha Dodi and a foundational figure of the Safed Kabbalists — with particularly clear examples on images 20–29. His distinctive manicule (a hand-drawn pointing finger) appears on folios 123–129, approximately images 250–262 in the viewer; the codex's image numbering does not exactly track folio numbers, so this range is given as an estimate. A downloadable PDF facsimile is also available.