Binah Le’itim [sermons and eulogies]

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 116

FIGO, AZARIAH

Binah Le’itim [sermons and eulogies]

First Edition. Title within decorative woodcut architectural arch. ff. 4, 200, (12). Stained in places. Later blind-ruled tan morocco, rubbed, rebacked. Sm. folio Vinograd, Venice 1276

Venice: Francesco Vicheri 1648

Est: $300 - $400

PRICE REALIZED $250

Accoring to Magolioth, sermon no. 26 for Passover was censored in the 1799 Brünn edition of Binah Le’itim. See: R. Magolioth, Areshet Vol. 1 p.422. For an in depth analysis of Figo’s scholarly place in history, see I. Bettan, The Sermons of Azariah Figo, in HUCA, Vol. 7, pp. 457-495.