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

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 247

SABA, ABRAHAM

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

Second edition. Title within elaborate floral wreathed and garlanded woodcut architectural arch. Opening word within elaborate woodcut vignette. Printer’s device on title (Yaari’s Printer’s Marks no. 16) ff. 165 (of 166), lacking final blank. Stained in places. Recent morocco-backed boards. Folio Vinograd, Venice 293; Haberman, Adelkind 25; not in Adams

Venice: Justinian-Adelkind 1546

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $800

Exiled from his native Castile, no sooner did Saba take refuge in Oporto, Portugal, King Emanuel ordered (24th December, 1496) all Jews converted and all Hebrew books burned. Saba’s sons were forcibly baptized and his extensive library plundered. He managed to save his own works in manuscript, and buried them outside Lisbon. However in time he was forced out of Portugal altogether and escape to Fez, Morocco where he attempted to recommit from memory works he was forced to abandon in Portugal. See N.S. Leibowitz, R. Avraham Saba Usefarav (1936)