Sefer ha-Zohar. Cremona, Vicenzo Conti, 1559–60

Second edition (editio princeps Mantua 1558) of this pseudepigraphical seminal work of the Spanish Kabbalah, centred around the second-century R. Simeon bar Yochai but produced by the Castilian kabbalist R. Moses ben Shem Tov de Leon (1240–1305) and his circle as argued by Yehuda Liebes (Studies in the Zohar, 1993). It was already commented on within a decade of its first circulation and has remained the standard kabbalistic text. According to the colophon, the imprimatur was already given in 1558, the year of the first edition of the Zohar - in fact both editions were printed almost simultaneously.

Some early marginal annotations in Hebrew and various ownership marks (one dated 1696) on the colophon page.