Tolaat Yaakov – Constantinople, 1560 – First Edition

Tolaat Yaakov – Constantinople, 1560 – First Edition
Tolaat Yaakov, commentary on the prayers using the Pardes approaches, and secrets of the festivals, by the kabbalist R. Meir ibn Gabbai. Constantinople, [1560]. First edition.
The author, R. Meir ibn Gabbai, was a prominent kabbalist at the time of the Spanish expulsion. He authored other important kabbalistic works, including Avodat HaKodesh and Derech Emunah.
Ownership inscriptions on the title page, mostly deleted with ink, apart from one inscription, attesting that R. Yosef Shabtai Farhi (Yashpeh), a Jerusalemite Torah scholar, received the book from his grandfather R. Yehoshua Asher Farhi (also a Jerusalemite Torah scholar).
Stamps. A few glosses.
[79] leaves. 18.5 cm. Thick paper. Good-fair condition. Stains (including large dampstains). Paper repairs to title page and several other leaves. Marginal tears to two final leaves, slightly affecting text on one leaf. Worming. Leaves trimmed with damage to headings. New leather binding.
Without leaf of printed poem following title page, included in some copies only.