Ma’ayan Ganim.

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 158

ARCHIVOLTI, SAMUEL D’.

Ma’ayan Ganim.

FIRST EDITION. Three-crown printer’s device on title (Ya’ari no. 18). Woodcut vignette of a water-fountain repeated several times. ff. 45, (1). Dampstained in places, neat marginal repairs to title and last few leaves. Modern blind-tooled morocco. 12mo Vinograd, Venice 456; not in Adams

Venice: Alvise Bragadin 1553

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $1,500

Containing some 25 letters, including love letters, written in metrical form designed to serve as templates for students of this classic literary genre. Ma’ayan Ganim has gained some notoriety as a source, on the contentious issue to some, of promulgating intensive Torah-study for women. It is cited by Baruch Epstein in his works Torah Temimah and Mekor Baruch. Regarding several scholars not familiar with the original citation - no doubt due to the rarity of this edition - see D. Rabinowitz, Rayna Batya and Other Learned Women: A Reevaluation of Rabbi… Epstein's Sources in: Tradition,Vol. 35, No. 1, Spring 2001, pp.55-69 (esp. n. 51)