Sepher Ha-Musar

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

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

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Lot 93

KALATZ, JUDAH.

Sepher Ha-Musar

FIRST EDITION. Title within architectural arch ff. 140. Trimmed and stained in places, few paper repairs. Fine modern gilt-tooled beach morocco, gilt, with additional inlay by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. 4to Vinograd Const. 159; Yaari Cont. 124; Mehlman 978; St. Cat. Bodl. 5693, 1 (ed. rara)

Constantinople: Eliezer b. Gershom Soncino 1536-37

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,000

AN ETHICAL WORK WITH both RATIONAL AND KABBALISTIC EXPOSITIONS concerning social and commercial halacha. The author was a mystic and moralist, who resided in Tlemcen, Algeria at the beginning of the fifteenth century. Concerning the Kalatz Family, see S. Z. Havlin, Le-Toldoth Mishpachath Al-Calatz, in Kiryat Sepher, Vol. 49, (1974) pp.643-56. Havlin cites S. Schechter and H. Enelow, who opine that portions of the Sepher Ha-Musar were “adapted” from Israel Alnaqua’s Menorath ha-Maor