Siach Yitzchak.

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 93

CHAYUT, ISAAC

Siach Yitzchak.

FIRST EDITION. Title within historiated border, Kabbalistic diagrams throughout ff. 19 (of 20, lacking f. 17). Several lines of ff. 18-19 supplied in facsimile. Modern calf. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Prague 54; Mehlman 915

Prague: Mordechai Katz 1587

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $600

A series of Kabbalistic poems with commentary, all of whose themes relate to the First Nights of Passover. The title of this rare book is unusually tucked away at the bottom of the title page in small Rashi letters. Isaac Chayut was a scion of a branch of the Chassidei Provence who later settled in Bohemia, where he was appointed Rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva of Prague in 1584. His contemporary, David Gans, commends him as one of the most praise-worthy rabbis of the generation