Lekach Tov.
AUCTION 46 |
Thursday, September 10th,
2009 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Graphic Art
Lot 277
YAGEL, ABRAHAM BEN CHANANIAH, OF MONCELISE.
Lekach Tov.
Venice: Giovanni di Gara 1595
Est: $1,200 - $1,800
PRICE REALIZED $1,000
Rare catechism of religious guidance for youth. It is speculated that the author composed the work when tutoring the children of Joseph Fano, the politically powerful Jewish financier of Reggio nell'Emilia. See D.B. Ruderman, Kabbalah, Magic, and Science: The Cultural Universe of a Sixteenth-Century Jewish Physician (1988), pp. 15,18.
The marginalium on the verso of the title disputes Bartolocci's claim that Abraham Yagel adopted the name "Camillo Jaghel" and worked for the Church as a censor of Hebrew books. See Ruderman, pp. 165-68.