Sepher HaMusar
AUCTION 41 |
Thursday, September 18th,
2008 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Graphic Art
Lot 170
KALATZ, JUDAH.
Sepher HaMusar
Constantinople: Eliezer b. Gershom Soncino 1536-37
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
PRICE REALIZED $1,200
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 15th-century.
Concerning the Kalatz Family, see S. Z. Havlin, LeToldoth 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 HaMusar were “adapted” from Israel Alnaqua’s Menorath HaMaor