Masoreth Ha’brith [“Tradition of the Covenant”- treatise on the Masorah]

AUCTION 20 | Monday, June 02nd, 2003 at 5:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books from the Library of the Late Salman Schocken (1877-1959)

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ANGEL, MEIR BEN ABRAHAM OF BELGRADE AND SOFIA

Masoreth Ha’brith [“Tradition of the Covenant”- treatise on the Masorah]

FIRST EDITION. Title within typographical border. Printer’s device on verso of title (Yaari no. 39) ff. (146). Lightly browned, dampstained in places, marginal annotation on f.(110). Typed bibliographic note tipped to title-page. Recent boards. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Cracow 361

Cracow: Aaron ben Isaac Prostitz 1619

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,250

<p>Meir ben Abraham Angel of Belgrade was a renowned preacher who lived in the sixteenth- and seventeenth centuries. He traveled throughout Poland, Italy, and Greece and died in Safed. In Masoreth Ha’brith, the Author sets out some 700 homilies based upon texts that accord with the Masorah</p>