Lechem Setarim [Talmudic novellae to Tractate Avodah Zarah and miscellanea]

AUCTION 42 | Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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ALGAZI, SOLOMON BEN ABRAHAM

Lechem Setarim [Talmudic novellae to Tractate Avodah Zarah and miscellanea]

FIRST EDITION. Title within architectural columns, flanked by Moses on right and Solomon on left, while above two angels hold aloft the Ten Commandments; at bottom, printer's mark of three leonine heads (Yudlov, Hebrew Printers' Marks 18). Learned rabbinic marginalia in old Sephardic hand (ff. 4v., 6r., 11v.) ff. 134. Ex-library. Title and first two leaves tape-repaired, waterstained. Recent cloth. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Venice 1366 (correct ff.132 to read ff.134); Steinschneider 6894-9 (col. 2278)

Venice: Bragadin 1664

Est: $600 - $900

Algazi (1610? -1683) was an outspoken opponent of the pseudo-Messiah of Izmir, Shabbetai Zevi. At the height of Zevi’s power, Algazi, one of Izmir’s distinguished rabbis, was forced to flee the city. See G. Scholem, Sabbatai Sevi, p. 414; EJ, Vol. II, col. 610. The book opens with an panegyric composed in honor of the Author by the "magi'ah" (proofreader), R. Moses Zacuto, who pays tribute to R. Solomon's pilpulistic ability. Zacuto, no mean halachist in his own right, is most famous as being the doyen of the Italian kabbalists of the 17th-century.