Shlomo ben Chaim of Dresnitz. Shivchei Ha'Ari [biography of R. Isaac Luria]

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 324

(LURIA, ISAAC).

Shlomo ben Chaim of Dresnitz. Shivchei Ha'Ari [biography of R. Isaac Luria]

Manuscript in Hebrew written in cursive Sephardic script, black ink on paper. Written by David Azagoury. Portuguese inscription of former owner: "Salomon Abitbol, Lisbon, Tammuz 5687 / 15 July 1927." From the Cassuto Collection

North Africa: 1863

Est: $500 - $700

"The first Kabbalistic hagiography." G. Scholem, Kabbalah (1974) p. 423. Originally published as part of Ta’alumoth Chochmah by Joseph Shlomo Delmedigo in 1629 and separately thereafter under the title Shivchei Ha'Ari. The eminent historian Meir Benayahu's doctoral dissertation focused upon Shivchei Ha'Ari and its various recensions. Benayahu also published a full bibliography of all the printed editions and manuscripts of the work in Aresheth Vol III (1961) pp. 144-65