Chazon Lamo’ed [commentary to the Book of Daniel, 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 263

VALERIO, SAMUEL

Chazon Lamo’ed [commentary to the Book of Daniel, with text]

FIRST EDITION. Title within architectural arch. Presentation Copy. ff. 6,112. Dampstained on last few leaves, signed by censor on verso of final leaf. Generally, a clean copy. 19th century gilt-tooled morocco boards, spine with gilt-tooled presentation dedication to “Samson Morpurgo” dated 1834. 4to Vinograd, Venice 689; Habermann, di Gara 79; Adams V-58

Venice: Giovanni di Gara 1586

Est: $700 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $700

Several members of the North Italian Morpurgo family, were prominent in academic and business circles. Of particular note is the Rabbi and physician Samson Morpurgo (1681-1740), who served as Chief Rabbi of Ancona and was involved in the polemics of his generation against Nehemiah Chayun’s heretical writings. On his involvment in the controversy, see M. Benayahu, Haskamah Ureshut Bedefusei Venezia (1971) pp. 108-12; see also E. Carlebach, The Pursuit of Heresy (1990) pp.94-5. He was no doubt, the ancestral name-sake of the previous owner of this copy. See also E. Morpurgo, La Famiglia Morpurgo di Gradisca sull’Isonzo 1585-1855 (Padua, 1909)