Lekach Tov.

AUCTION 46 | Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Graphic Art

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Lot 277
YAGEL, ABRAHAM BEN CHANANIAH, OF MONCELISE.

Lekach Tov.

FIRST EDITION. Dedication to Joseph Fano. ff.18. Stains. Modern blind-tooled calf. 12mo Vinograd, Venice 803; Habermann, di Gara 150

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.