FIGO, AZARIAH

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 97

FIGO, AZARIAH

Gedulai Terumah. First Edition. TItle within architectural border, ff. (6), 382,. [Vinograd, Venice 1255; Mehlman 858]. Venice, Vendramin, 1643. * Binah Le’itim [sermons and eulogies]. First Edition. Title within decorative woodcut architectural arch. ff. 4, 200, (12). [Vinograd, Venice 1276]. Venice, Francesco Vicheri, 1648 Some wear. 4to

Venice: v.d

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $350

The author was one of the most famous Italian Rabbis of his time (1579-1647). The Gidulei Terumah is a valuable commentary to Samuel Sardi’s Sepher Haterumah, the first Halachic work devoted solely to civil law. In the Binah Leitim, Sermon no. 26 for Passover was later censored in the 1799 Brünn edition of Binah Le’itim. See R. Margolioth, Aresheth Vol. I, p.422. For an in depth analysis of Figo’s scholarly place in history, see I. Bettan, The Sermons of Azariah Figo, in HUCA, Vol. VII, pp. 457-95, who emphasizes “...the important position the work occupies in the development of the Jewish sermon