Tzeror Ha’mor [“A Bundle of Myrrh” - Kabbalistic commentary to the Pentateuch].

AUCTION 79 | Thursday, November 15th, 2018 at 1:00 PM

The Valmadonna Trust Library: Further Selections from the Historic Collection. * Hebrew Printing in America. * Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 118

SABA, ABRAHAM.

Tzeror Ha’mor [“A Bundle of Myrrh” - Kabbalistic commentary to the Pentateuch].

Second edition. Title within elaborate floral wreathed and garlanded architectural arch and with printer’s device (Yaari’s Printer’s Marks no. 16). Opening word of each Book within elaborate woodcut vignette. ff. 165. Dampstained, previous owner’s marks, signed by censor at end. Later speckled sheep, Valmadonna-custom gilt-titling on spine. Folio. Vinograd, Venice 293.

Venice: Justinian-Adelkind 1546

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,500

The Author (c. 1440-1508) was exiled in 1492 from his native Castille. No sooner did he find refuge in Oporto, Portugal, than King Emanuel ordered all Jews converted and all Hebrew books burned. Saba’s sons were forcibly baptized and his extensive library plundered. He escaped to Fez, Morocco, where he reconstructed this work from memory. See N.S. Libowitz, R. Avraham Saba U’Sepharav (1936); EJ, Vol. XIV, cols. 555-6.