⚠The page is stained and foxed, with some ink bleed-through and fading of the text.

The Book of the Fountain of Wisdom

Handwritten numeral, likely a shelf mark or folio number.

A 1858

Likely an acquisition date or catalog number added by a later collector.

JEWS' COLLEGE LONDON. Stamp of the library of Jews' College, London, a rabbinical seminary founded in 1855.

The Book of the Fountain of Wisdom

Original Hebrew: Sefer Ma'ayan ha-Chokhmah. This is a foundational text of Jewish mysticism (Kabbalah), traditionally attributed to Moses or the angel Metatron.

Printed in Amsterdam

Amsterdam was a major center for Hebrew printing and Jewish intellectual life in the 17th and 18th centuries.