Seder Keri’ah ve-Tikun le-Leilei Chag Shavu’oth ve-Hoshanah Raba [Readings for the All Night Vigils of Pentecost and Hoshana Raba]. Compiled by Moses Cordovero and ascribed to Isaac Luria

AUCTION 27 | Tuesday, February 08th, 2005 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Ceremonial & Graphic Art

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Seder Keri’ah ve-Tikun le-Leilei Chag Shavu’oth ve-Hoshanah Raba [Readings for the All Night Vigils of Pentecost and Hoshana Raba]. Compiled by Moses Cordovero and ascribed to Isaac Luria

Title within wreathed architectural columns. PRINTED ON BLUE PAPER ff. 74 (mispaginated, actually ff.76). Lower margins of everal leaves shortened with virtually no loss of text. Contemporary vellum. 8vo Vinograd, Amsterdam 370; Fuks, 454; Mehlman 593 (blue-paper copy)

Amsterdam: David de Castro Tartas 1669

Est: $800 - $1,200
PRICE REALIZED $1,600
A BLUE-PAPER COPY The first Amsterdam edition of this popular anthology, which includes selected readings from Pentateuch, Prophets, Writings, Talmud, Midrash and Zohar. The readings were compiled by R. Moses Cordovero (RaMaK), though they are sometimes ascribed to R. Isaac Luria (AR”I). At the request of wealthy bibliophiles, a handful of copies were printed on colored paper. According to Fuks, the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana, Amsterdam, have copies on blue paper. The Bodleian also has a copy on green paper