Me’ametz Ko’ach [sermons and eulogies]

AUCTION 23 | Tuesday, March 30th, 2004 at 1:00

Hebrew Printed Books & Manuscripts from The Rare Book Room of the Jews College Library, London The Third Portion

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Lot 9

ALMOSNINO, MOSES

Me’ametz Ko’ach [sermons and eulogies]

Second edition. Printer’s devices on title and final leaf ff.236. Censor's signature on final leaf. Stamps on title, light staining. Blind-tooled sheep with gilt corners, rebacked; owner's name stamped on upper cover. 4to Vinograd, Venice 726; Habermann, di Gara 102; not in Adams

Venice: Asher Parenzo for Giovanni di Gara 1588

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $600

Twenty-eight (thus ko'ach, the numerical Hebrew equivelant to 28) sermons by R. Moses Almosnino (c.1515-c.1580), preacher of the Neveh Shalom Congregation and an important communal leader of the Salonikan Jewish community. Almosnino draws on a broad repertoire of medieval interpreters: Maimonides, Nachmanides, R. David Kimchi, Ibn Shuaib, et al. See EJ, Vol. II, cols. 669-671