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GIKATILLA, YOSEPH. Sepher HaNikud VeSod HaChashmal [examining the mystical significance of the Nekudoth; and a treatise on Divine Energy as experienced within the visions of the Prophet Ezekiel]. Hebrew manuscript in Aschkenazi cursive century script. Brown ink on paper. *  Sepher HaNikud: ff. 1 - 26b.  *  Sod HaChashmal: ff. 27a - 34b. ff. (36), excluding blanks. Lightly browned. Later blind tooled morocco boards, gutter split, rebacked, rubbed. Sm. 8vo. n.p. 18th-century. Also includes (ff. 35a-36b) a mystical commentary by Menachem Azariah of Fano on the verse: יִֽחְי֣וּ מֵתֶ֔יךָ נְבֵֽלָתִ֖י יְקוּמ֑וּן. (Isaiah 26:19).  Both R. Yoseph Gikatilla and R. Menachem Azariah of Fano were profound Kabbalists whose works include some of the most detailed, yet lucid, systematic expositions of Kabbalistic concepts.  Gershon Scholem (Kithvei Yad BeKabbalah) has no record of any other manuscript of these works.