Cover Pages for Early Printed Editions of the Zohar

The 1558 Mantua Zohar Translation and notes.

The 1851 Livorno Zohar Translation and notes.

The 1558 Cremona Zohar Translation and notes.

The 1560 Cremona Zohar Translation and notes.

The 1623 Lublin Zohar Zvi Kalonimos Jaffe. Image only. See also   from Battle for Editio Princeps   Two pages   Text   teatrnn.pl History   Antiquarian  

Knorr von Rosenroth's Kabbala Denudata - 1684 Image only -- with frontispiece.   See especially Bill Heidrick's Kabbala Denudata site.

The 1715 Amsterdam Zohar Solomon ben Joseph Proops, 1715. Image only.

1719 Constantinople Tikunei haZohar

The Zohar – Constantinople, 1736 / 1807

The 1815 Livorno Zohar Image only -- with hand-drawn page.

An 1867 Warsaw Zohar Image only.

An 1894 Vilna Zohar Image only.

A Salonika Zohar Image only.

Maggid Meisharim Rabbi Yosef Karo. The revelations of the angel to Rabbi Yosef Karo.

Sepher Yetzirah - Mantua 1562 The Book of Formation, or Book of Creation.


Other Links

The Text and Context of the 1684 Sulzbach Edition of the Zohar by Boaz Huss. An interesting story about followers of Shabbatai Zevi and Christian Kabbalists.

The Aramaic Language of the Zohar Resources for studying Kabbalah in the original language by Justin Jaron Lewis and Judy Barrett.

Digitized view of a manuscript of the Zohar from the 1400s Later owned by Shabbetai Tzvi, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Room, University of Toronto

Zohar manuscript from ebay.com Rare and beautiful Zohar manuscript


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