Sepher Tanya

AUCTION 34 | Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 at 1:00

Exemplary Hebrew Books: The Library of Joseph Gradenwitz, Esq.

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Lot 9

(ANAV, YECHIEL BEN YEKUTHIEL (?) / ANAV, ZEDEKIAH BEN ABRAHAM(?)).

Sepher Tanya

FIRST EDITION. Printed without a title ff.(100). Trace stained, otherwise an attractive crisp copy. Modern calf. 4to Vinograd, Mantua 16; St. Cat. Bodl. 7449, 2 (ed. rarissima); Mehlman 725

Mantua: Samuel Latif 1514

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

PRICE REALIZED $5,000

Composed in the 13th-century, the Sepher Tanya is a compilation of Jewish law and custom as applied by the Jews of Italy (Minhag Bnei Roma). There is considerable overlap between the present work and another work of the same genre, Shibolei ha-Leket also composed by Zedekiah Anav. See EJ, Vol. II, cols. 937-938 and M. Waxman, History of Jewish Literature Vol. II, pp. 130-132 regarding the disputatious authorship of Tanya