Shivchei Yerushalayim [an anthology of works (including R. Chaim Vital and R. Isaac Luria) on the Holy ...

Shivchei Yerushalayim [an anthology of works (including R. Chaim Vital and R. Isaac Luria) on the Holy Sites].Signature of the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Chai Mussafia.

Edited by Yaakov b. Moshe Chaim Baruch.

FIRST EDITION. Title within woodcut floral border. ff. (2), 47. Vinograd, Livorno 216. Livorno, A. Castillo and E. Saadon, 1785

This work became extremely popular due to its detailed, lively descriptions of various places and sites throughout Eretz Israel (including customs of both Jews and Arabs). It includes an anonymous 16th-century travelogue of Eretz Israel, information pertaining to the whereabouts of the Ten Tribes, identifies the graves of various Sages, excerpts from the travels of Benjamin of Tudela, meditative prayers, etc.

Owner's signature: '.. . the youth Achi"m S"T' - none other than the gaon Rabbi Avraham Chai Mussafia (Otzar HaRabbanim 1056), author of Tehillah L'David, a sage in Turkey and Jerusalem, son of Rabbi Chaim Yitzchak, av beit din of Ishpalatro. In addition to his Sefer Tehillah L'David (Livorno, 1667), some of his novellae were printed in his father's work Chaim VaChessed. 

Handwritten ownership notations by Rabbi Yitzchak Badhav [wise and famous Jerusalemite collector] as well as a gloss signed by him “Until here I have copied from the manuscript, Yitzchak Badhav” [part of the material printed in the Sefer was in manuscript form in Badhav's collection].

Good-fair condition, stains, worming to some pages mostly in the margins, later binding.