Shaarei Tzion, kabbalistic prayers and tikunim by R. Natan Nata Hannover. Amsterdam: Uri Phoebus son of Aharon HaLevi, 1671. Second edition, with many additions, printed in the lifetime of the author.

Rare second edition of Shaarei Tzion, anthology of prayers, piyyutim, tikunim and kabbalistic practices which was highly popular and was printed in dozens of editions over the following centuries. Shaarei Tzion was first printed in Prague, 1662. Four years later, an abridged anthology of prayers from the book was printed in Prague under the name Ohev Hashem Shaarei Tzion (this work is more limited and edited in an entirely different way). The present book, the second edition of the work, contains additional prayers and other supplements which were not printed in the first edition.

The author, R. Natan Nata Hannover (d. 1683), author of Shaarei Tzion and Safah Berurah, a leading Torah scholar and kabbalist, was a rabbi in Iziaslav, Livorno, Iași and elsewhere. He witnessed the destruction of Jewish communities in the Chmielnicki massacres of 1648-1649, which he recorded in his Yeven Metzulah (see Lot 133).

Ownership inscription on title page, partially deleted: "G-d granted me this book, Meir Falk[?]".

54 leaves. 17 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Wear. Worming, affecting text. Marginal tears to several leaves, and tear affecting text to one leaf, repaired with paper filling. Old parchment binding with new spine and leather straps.

CB, no. 6637,7; Zedner, p. 448; Roest, p. 688.