Luria, Isaac. Shulchan Aruch [Halachic ritual infused with Kabbalah]. With: Ibn Ezra, Abraham. Igereth ha-Shabath [The Letter of the Sabbath]

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Lot 132

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Luria, Isaac. Shulchan Aruch [Halachic ritual infused with Kabbalah]. With: Ibn Ezra, Abraham. Igereth ha-Shabath [The Letter of the Sabbath]

FIRST EDITION Igereth ha-Shabbath ff. (2), 112. Light stains. Half-morocco over marbled boards. 16mo Vinograd, Amsterdam 898

Amsterdam: Jacob Alvarez Soto, Moses Even-Yakar Brandon and Benjamin de Jong 1709

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,800

In Igereth ha-Shabath Abraham ibn Ezra recounts a dream in which it was ordained to compose this work to make amends for a prior misunderstood teaching that seems to have led to the unintentional desecration of the Sabbath by a wayward student. (ff. 110v-112r) See EJ, Vol. VIII, cols. 1163-4