(Hayarchi). Sepher Hamanhig

AUCTION 44 | Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at 1:00

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

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Lot 6

ABRAHAM BEN NATHAN OF LUNEL

(Hayarchi). Sepher Hamanhig

FIRST EDITION. Title within woodcut block floral border. A wide margined copy ff. (130). Some staining, marginal repair to title and first few leaves, signatures and inscrptions of former owners on title including R. Akiva Breslau, elaborate Sephardic monogram signature on f. 94a. Later blind-tooled calf, slightly rubbed. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Const. 110; Yaari, Const. 63; Mehlman 691; not in Adams

Constantinople: Solomon ben Mazal-Tov 1519

Est: $7,000 - $9,000

PRICE REALIZED $7,500

The first work on European Minhag. A record of customs, particularly concerning prayer and synagogue functions as practiced in Provence, the south of France. Its explicit purpose was to demonstrate the Halachic underpinning for every Minhag. Due to the wider circulation of Halachic decisions emanating from Spanish Rabbinic authorities, a need arose to record indigenous communal practices and so prevent confusion. A scholarly treatment of the work, with a lengthy introduction emphasizing its importance and influence, was prepared by Yitzchak Raphael (Jerusalem, 1994). The author, R. Abraham ben Nathan of Lunel, was a disciple of R. Abraham ben David of Posquières (RABa"D), famous for his glosses to Maimonides and to Alfasi. See Isadore Twersky, Rabad of Posquières (1962), pp. 240-44