Ma’avar Yabok [prayers for the sick and dead]

AUCTION 12 | Tuesday, March 13th, 2001 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 56

BERACHIAH, AARON BEN MOSES OF MODENA

Ma’avar Yabok [prayers for the sick and dead]

FIRST EDITION. Title within ornamental typographic border. ff.40, pp.41-55,ff.57-84; 146,149-162, 155-172. Few stained in places, gently damp-wrinkled. Contemporary gilt-ruled and blind-stamped tan mottled-calf, tooled with foliate embellishments surrounding a central cartouche, upper-cover gilt-tooled with the name “”Isaac Franni,” spine in compartments, gently rubbed at edges, lacking clasps and hinges. 4to Vinograd, Mantua 220; Mehlman 523

Mantua: Judah Samuel 1626

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,500

A Most Desirable Copy, Finely Bound. Includes laws of visiting the sick, and correct modes of behavior toward the deceased and the mourners.