Seder Idra Raba / Seder Idra Zuta [prayers and meditations from the Zohar]

AUCTION 51 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Books, Part II

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Lot 230
(KABBALAH)

Seder Idra Raba / Seder Idra Zuta [prayers and meditations from the Zohar]

Divided and bound into 16 booklets and stored in a miniature metal chest with padlock Sold not subject to return. 24mo

Jerusalem: 1910

Est: $500 - $700
PRICE REALIZED $1,400
This unusual miniature edition was published for those Sephardic communities whose custom it was to recite the Idra Raba on the night of Shavuoth and the Idra Zuta on Hoshana Raba and Lag B’Omer - the anniversary (“Hilula”) of the death of R. Shimon b. Yochai