Menorath ha-Ma’or [“The Candelabrum of Light:” Ethical Treatise]

AUCTION 57 | Thursday, January 31st, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Menorath ha-Ma’or [“The Candelabrum of Light:” Ethical Treatise]

<<Provenance: Joseph Schreiber, the youngest son of the Chasam Sofer.>> Previous owner’s signatures on front fly-leaf “Yuzpe ben-Ha-G[aon] M[oshe] S[ofer] - Joseph Schreiber” and further on final leaf in Ashkenazic and Italian hands, including Shmaya Aboulafia of Pesaro. Marginalia in an Aschkenazic hand. ff.116. Some staining, marginal repair on title and elsewhere. Modern calf gilt. Folio. Vinograd Mantua 95.

Mantua: G. Ruffinelli 1563

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $900

The signatory on the front fly-leaf was the youngest son of the Chasam Sofer (1825-1883). In turn, his-son-in-law was R. Yehudah Greenwald, Rabbi of Satmar. For more details, see M.A.Z. Kinstlicher, HeChasam Sofer V’Talmidav (2005) pp. 204-6 (includes facs. of signature).