Ner Mitzvah [commentary to Solomon ibn Gabirol’s Azharoth, with text]

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 235

PESANTE, MOSES

Ner Mitzvah [commentary to Solomon ibn Gabirol’s Azharoth, with text]

FIRST EDITION. pp. (6), 103, (4). Stained, title rehinged with neat marginal repair. Modern blind-tooled morocco. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Const. 231; Yaari, Const. 172; Mehlman 615; not in Adams

Constantinople: Solomon Ya’abetz 1567

Est: $4,000 - $5,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,000

Originally stemming from Turkey, Pesante travelled through the Balkan Peninsula as an emissary for Safed. He was murdered in Greece in 1573. See A. Yaari, Sheluchei Eretz Yisrael (1977) p. 236.