(The SHeLa”H Hakodosh). Emek Berachah [laws and customs of blessings and prayers]

AUCTION 38 | Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 1:00

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Lot 141

HOROWITZ, ABRAHAM BEN SHABBATHAI SHEFTEL, AND HIS SON ISAIAH

(The SHeLa”H Hakodosh). Emek Berachah [laws and customs of blessings and prayers]

FIRST EDITION. Scholarly marginalia in an Aschkenazic hand with a lengthy note on f. 25a ff.60, 63-66, 69-130. Complete, although misbound and mispaginated (the Roest and Mehlman copies also mispaginated). Title and additional leaves repaired affecting few words. Later vellum. 8vo Vinograd Cracow 199; Mehlman 816; St. Cat. Bodl. 4233:10; Roest 41

Cracow: Isaac Prostitz 1597

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,000

One of the great Talmudists of the day, the author (known as R. Abraham Sheftels) was a disciple of Moses Isserles. The co-author, his son, grew to become the revered SHeLa”H Hakadosh. The lengthy introduction by both father and son contain Kabbalistic elements which later became the hallmark of the SHeLa”H Hakadosh