Tzeror Ha’mor [“A Bundle of Myrrh,” kabbalistic commentary to the Pentateuch]

AUCTION 46 | Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 1:00

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

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Lot 255

SABA, ABRAHAM.

Tzeror Ha’mor [“A Bundle of Myrrh,” kabbalistic commentary to the Pentateuch]

Second edition. Title within elaborate floral wreathed and garlanded architectural arch. Opening word within elaborate woodcut vignette. Printer’s device on title (Yaari’s Printer’s Marks no. 16) ff. 165 (of 166), complete except for final blank, mispaginated in places as in all copies (corrected in pencil by previous owner). Closely shaved, stained, part of upper and lower corner of title repaired with portion of decoration in facsimile. Modern calf-backed boards. Folio Vinograd, Venice 293; Haberman, Adelkind 25

Venice: Justinian-Adelkind 1546

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $550

Abraham Saba (c. 1440-1508), was exiled in 1492 from his native Castille. No sooner did he find refuge in Oporto, Portugal, than King Emanuel ordered all Jews converted and all Hebrew books burned. Saba’s sons were forcibly baptized and his extensive library plundered. The Author escaped to Fez, Morocco, where he reconstructed this work from memory. See N.S. Libowitz, R. Avraham Saba u-Sepharav (1936); EJ, Vol. XIV, cols. 555-6.