Tikkunei HaZohar - Mantua, 1557 - First Edition - Copy of Kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Fatiyah, with a Dedication ...

Tikkunei HaZohar - Mantua, 1557 - First Edition - Copy of Kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Fatiyah, with a Dedication Handwritten and Signed by Him, and with His Glosses - Glosses and Signatures of Other Writers
Tikkunei HaZohar. Mantua: [Meir son of Efraim of Padua and Ya'akov son of Naftali HaCohen of Gazzuolo, 1557]. First edition.
Copy of Kabbalist R. Yehuda Fatiyah with a special dedication, handwritten and signed by him, and several glosses in his handwriting. Signatures and many glosses of other writers [in Sephardi- Babylonian script].
At the end of the introduction is a long interesting dedication in the handwriting of R. Yehuda Fatiyah. First, he writes of the importance of this edition of Tikkunei HaZohar: "It is the first printed edition ever, because it was printed in 1557… at the time the Arizal was yet a young man, and the sources cited in Etz Chaim and in Eight She'arim refer to this printed edition…". R. Yehuda Fatiyah then relates that he sent this book with his son to give it "as a gift" to the "institute officials" in Jerusalem: "Since it is valuable, I have sent it with my son on Sunday, the 9th of the month of Adar Bet 1935 upon his aliya to Jerusalem to give it to the institute official as a gift to add it to the rest of the books gathered by the Jewish People and I have appointed my son as an emissary to perform this mitzvah and complete this mission and the Guardian of the Jewish People should also guard my son Servant of G-d and his son Shaul…Ye'uda Moshe Yeshua Fatiyah" [possibly, he is referring to the institute which eventually developed into the NLI].
The signature of his aforementioned son appears on the first leaf: "Abdullah Ye'uda Moshe Fatiyah". Other ownership inscriptions and signatures throughout the book.
Handwritten glosses by R. Yehuda Fatiyah on several leaves (page 33b and leaves 106-107).
Corrections and glosses of other writers, including long kabbalistic glosses. Two have curly signatures ["Abdullah/David?... Nuriel?"]. One gloss begins with the words: "Behold I have heard from my father R. Nuriel…".
R. Yehuda Fatiyah (1859-1942) was a leading kabbalist and Babylonian (Iraqi) sage, disciple of the Ben Ish Chai. After moving to Jerusalem in 1934, he studied at Rabbi Sadeh's Yeshiva for Kabbalists together with his companion R. Ya'akov Chaim Sofer, author of Kaf HaChaim. A posek and kabbalist, he dealt extensively n kabbalistic Tikkunim and amulets and for many years removed Dybbuks and "Evil Spirits" as he himself relates in his book HaRuchot Mesaprot. During World War II, he wrote Kabbalistic prayers and Tikkunim and iorganized prayer ceremonies of leading Kabbalists for the deliverance of the residents of Eretz Israel from the Nazi enemy. Authored Beit Lechem Yehuda and Matok LaNefesh and other books.
1-15, 17-146, [2] leaves (originally: [4], 146, [2] leaves). Lacking title page and the [3] following leaves (with a ruling of R. Moshe Basula), and leaf 16 (replaced with a leaf in Oriental handwriting). Condition varies among the leaves, fair-good. Stains. Wear and tears to several leaves, repaired with acidic adhesive tape. Old binding.