Sepher Tziyoni [Kabbalistic homilies to the Pentateuch, with poems]

AUCTION 1 | Thursday, November 14th, 1996 at 1:00

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MENACHEM TZIYONI BEN MEIR OF SPEYER.

Sepher Tziyoni [Kabbalistic homilies to the Pentateuch, with poems]

Second edition. Title and chapter headings with woodblock historiated initials Mispaginated though complete, numerous underlinings, few light stains, ff.7:4 browned, title includes signatures of the Rabbinic scholars Michael Sachs and Moses Gaster, signed by the censor Aless[and]ro Scipione1597 at end, later limp boards, extremeties rubbed, sm. 4to Vinograd, Cremona 31; Benayahu, Cremona 27 and pp.80-3 (illustrated); not in Adams

Cremona: Vicenzo Conti 1560

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $650

The first edition of 1559 was entirely destroyed by the Dominican Friars of Cremona zealously seeking to enforce Pope Paul IV’s Index of that year. See Amram, pp.310-15