Chavatzeleth Hasharon [commentary to Book of Daniel, with text]

AUCTION 13 | Tuesday, June 26th, 2001 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts Together With Fine Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 127

ALSHEICH, MOSES.

Chavatzeleth Hasharon [commentary to Book of Daniel, with text]

FIRST EDITION. ff.(114 of 116), lacking ff.39-40. Stained in places, scattered worming neatly repaired. Modern elaborately blind-tooled mahogany morocco. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Const. 223; Yaari, Const. 165; Adams B-1600

Safed/Constantinople?: n.p 1563

Est: $3,000 - $4,000

Highly Uncommon. Steinschneider (Cat. Bodl. no.180) lists the book as printed in Safed. Wiener (no.3727), Roest (p.221) and Zedner (p.147) all follow a similar logic. Thus assuming it to be the earliest Safed imprint and indeed the earliest Hebrew book printed in Asia. Yaari posits it is a Constantinople imprint from the press of Solomon ben Isaac Yaavetz. The Chavatzeleth Hasharon was the first book published by Moses Alsheich, a significant personality among the illustrious denizens of 16th-century Safed, indeed he is one of the few outstanding scholars to have the appendage “Hakadosh” (The Holy) universally cited after his name. (Others are the Shaloh and the Ohr Hachaim)