Sepher Ha-Musar
AUCTION 34 |
Tuesday, September 12th,
2006 at 1:00
Exemplary Hebrew Books: The Library of Joseph Gradenwitz, Esq.
Lot 93
KALATZ, JUDAH.
Sepher Ha-Musar
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