Korban Chagigah [Festival sermons, with novellae to Tractate Chagigah]

AUCTION 15 | Tuesday, March 12th, 2002 at 1:00

Fine Hebrew Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 187

GALANTE, MOSES

Korban Chagigah [Festival sermons, with novellae to Tractate Chagigah]

FIRST EDITION. Title within decorative woodcut border ff. 56. Dampstained, trace worming in places, foxed on last few leaves. Contemporary blind-tooled black morocco, rubbed at extremities, “Ephraim di Abram Arditi” tooled in gilt . Sm. folio Vinograd, Venice 1550

Venice: Bragadin 1704

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $250

The author studied in Safed and later settled in Jerusalem. He, along with other Jerusalem rabbinic leaders instituted the ordinance prohibiting the scholars of the city from employing the appellation “Rabbi” in order that one would not attempt to claim authority over the other. Galante was influenced by the Sabbatean movement for a time. In early 1666, he was in Aleppo where he was among the leading Sabbatean “prophets”. For a brief biography see A. Yaari, Sheluchei Eretz Yisrael (1977) pp. 290-1; and G. Scholem, Sabbatai Sevi (1973) pp. 246-8