Ma’avar Yabok [prayers for the sick and dead]

AUCTION 43 | Thursday, April 02nd, 2009 at 1:00

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

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AARON BERACHIAH BEN MOSES OF MODENA.

Ma’avar Yabok [prayers for the sick and dead]

Title-page in red and black. With imitation Proops printer 's mark of hands held in priestly blessing. Wide-margined copy. Printed mostly on green tinted paper ff. (4), 224 (of 228) lacking ff. 221-24. With inscription and signatures of members of "Chabura Kadisha of Oiber Vishiva" on front fly leaf, title and f. 205, final seven leaves repaired affecting text, some staining, tear on f. 45, scattered marginalia, some leaves worn from use, slight worming. Modern morocco. 4to Vinograd, Ostrog 95 (JNUL copy also incomplete); A.Yaari, Hadefus Ha’ivri Be’Ostraha, Alei Sefer, Vol II, no. 64

Ostrog [Ostroha] (pseudo Amsterdam): Aaron ben Yonah (pseudo Proops) 1817

Est: $300 - $500

With approbations of the Rabbi of Ostrog given to Aaron ben Yonah and R. Yisrael, the son of of the Chassidic Master, Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev. The author (d. 1639), was a follower of the Lurianic Kabbalah as transmitted to Italian scholars by the mystic, R. Israel Sarug. R. Chaim Joseph David Azulai attests he saw several kabbalistic manuscripts of R. Aaron Berechiah in the Modena home of his descendants, members of the Sanguinetti family. Azulai informs further, that apparently the author was visited regularly by a Maggid or celestial guide. See Shem ha-Gedolim I, A-121; EJ, Vol. II, col. 18; Vol. XIV, col. 890