Ma’ayan Ganim

AUCTION 25 | Monday, October 25th, 2004 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books: The Property of a Gentleman

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Lot 3

ARCHIVOLTI, SAMUEL D’

Ma’ayan Ganim

FIRST EDITION. Three-crown printer’s device on title (Ya’ari no. 18). Woodcut vignette of a water-fountain repeated several times ff. 45, (1). Dampstained in places. Owner’s signature in an Italian hand on title. Scattered marginalia. Final blank contains a pen-and-ink drawing of a cartouche. Later vellum. 12mo Vinograd, Venice 456; not in Adams

Venice: Alvise Bragadin 1553

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $2,600

Containing some 25 letters, including love letters, written in metrical form designed to serve as templates for students of this classic literary genre. Ma’ayan Ganim has gained some notoriety as a source, on the contentious issue to some, of promulgating intensive Torah-study for women. It is cited by Baruch Epstein in his works Torah Temimah and Mekor Baruch. Regarding several scholars not familiar with the original citation - no doubt due to the rarity of this edition - see D. Rabinowitz, Rayna Batya and Other Learned Women: A Reevaluation of Rabbi... Epstein's Sources in: Tradition,Vol. 35, No. 1 (Spring 2001) pp.55-69 (esp. n. 51)