Mesoreth Habrith Hagadol

AUCTION 50 | Thursday, February 24th, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Art

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Lot 25

ANGEL, MEIR BEN ABRAHAM

Mesoreth Habrith Hagadol

FIRST EDITION. Title within type-ornament border ff. 84, 102. Dampstained, crudely taped in places. Modern boards. Sm. folio Vinograd, Mantua 208

Mantua: Judah Samuel of Perugia 1622

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $500

Meir ben Abraham Angel was born in Bulgaria, but emigrated to Safed as a youth. There he studied under the great kabbalists, including Samuel Uceda and Chaim Vital. Upon his return to his native Sofia, he was appointed rabbi of the city. The present work, a commentary to 1650 Masoretic readings, is an expansion of his earlier Mesoreth Ha’Brith (Cracow, 1619) which was received to great acclaim. See EJ, Vol. II col. 951