Sepher haTechiyah veSepher haPeduth. * Sepher haPeduth vehaPurkan (Parts I and II of same work, both published in Mantua 1556) [on the Resurrection of the Dead]

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 194

SA’ADYAH BEN JOSEPH AL-FAYUMI (SA’ADYAH GAON)

Sepher haTechiyah veSepher haPeduth. * Sepher haPeduth vehaPurkan (Parts I and II of same work, both published in Mantua 1556) [on the Resurrection of the Dead]

FIRST EDITION. Letters of word “Sepher” on title of Part One and “Amar” on first page of Part Two richly historiated. Printer’s mark on final leaf of Part One. (See Yaari, Hebrew Printers’ Marks, no. 19). On final page a clever acrostic that sums up the laws of Chanukah by the initials of the verse “Zoth chanukath ha-mizbe’ach” in Numbers 7:84 ff. (12); (8). Stained and trimmed with some loss of text. Modern boards. 8vo Vinograd, Mantua 36, 32; Mehlman 1218

Mantua : Joseph ben Jacob Shalit of of Padua 1556

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

Anonymous translation to Hebrew from Arabic of chapters seven and eight of Sa’adyah’s magnum opus Emunoth veDe’oth (Beliefs and Opinions). The translation differs from that of Judah ibn Tibbon. In 1759 Rabbi Jacob Emden reprinted in Altona the second, but not the first part, of this work