Sepher HaMussar

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 231

KALATZ, JUDAH

Sepher HaMussar

Second corrected edition. Previous owner's signature on title: David Joseph Olivetti ff. 140. Trimmed, some staining and marginal worming, final few leaves remargined, f. 25 from another copy. Later boards. Loose in later boards. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Mantua 70; Mehlman 979

Mantua: Giacomo Ruffinelli & Partner 1560

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

An ethical work focusing on prayer and the Festivals, as based upon the Kabbalah. The author resided in Tlemcen, Algeria at the beginning of the 15th-century. Concerning the Kalatz Family see S. Z. Havlin, LeToldoth Mishpachath Al-Calatz, in Kiryath Sepher, Vol. 49 (1974) pp. 643-56