Sepher Yichus Hatzadikim [on the burial places of the righteous in Eretz Israel]. With supplications by Judah Aryeh Modena

AUCTION 16 | Tuesday, June 25th, 2002 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 111

(GERSHON BEN ASHER)

Sepher Yichus Hatzadikim [on the burial places of the righteous in Eretz Israel]. With supplications by Judah Aryeh Modena

Third edition ff. 104. Trimmed and stained, clean tear on f. 7, final two leaves loose, stamp on title. Contemporary vellum. 12mo Vinograd, Venice 874; not in Adams

Venice: Daniel Zanetti 1599

Est: $5,000 - $6,000

PRICE REALIZED $5,000

Lists the location of each burial places with details and aphorisms of each of the righteous provided alongside. This edition was published by a “poor blind man,” one Joseph ben Moses, who wished to travel to the Holy Land and distribute this guide to other pilgrims. His foreword beseeches support as he symbolically has died a “double death” - life has left him both blind and impoverished