GALLICO, SAMUEL. Asis Rimonim ["Juice of the Pomegranates": abridgment of R. Moses Cordovero's Pardess Rimonim]

AUCTION 42 | Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 201
(KABBALAH)

GALLICO, SAMUEL. Asis Rimonim ["Juice of the Pomegranates": abridgment of R. Moses Cordovero's Pardess Rimonim]

FIRST EDITION. Numerous text illustrations including Kabbalistic diagrams of the Ten Sephiroth, such as the famed concentric configuration on f.15v. (see facs. from Pardess Rimonim in EJ, Vol. X, col. 502) and the Ilan or Kabbalistic Tree on f. 23r. Title between architectural columns. The Leon Roth copy ff. 86. Title with old paper repair, extreme top of graphic obscured. f.85 repaired, a few words of text lost. Lightly browned. Later half-calf marbled boards, gently rubbed at corners. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Venice 935

Venice: Daniel Zanetti 1601

Est: $600 - $900
PRICE REALIZED $600
One of two abridgments of Cordovero's magnum opus, the other being Pelach ha-Rimon by R. Menachem Azariah of Fano (Venice, 1600). See J. Ben-Shlomo, "Moses Cordovero" in: G. Scholem, Kabbalah (1974), p. 404