Isaac Luria. Shulchan Aruch [Halachic ritual infused with Kabbalah]. With: Abraham ibn Ezra. Igereth HaShabath.

AUCTION 58 | Thursday, May 02nd, 2013 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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(KABBALAH).

Isaac Luria. Shulchan Aruch [Halachic ritual infused with Kabbalah]. With: Abraham ibn Ezra. Igereth HaShabath.

<<FIRST EDITION >> Igereth HaShabbath. ff. (2), 112. Marginal tears, few repaired, browned. Later reverse-calf boards. 16mo. Vinograd, Amsterdam 898; St. Bod. 5386 no. 14.

Amsterdam: Jacob Alvarez Soto, Moses Even-Yakar Brandon & Benjamin de Jong 1649 (i.e. 1709)

Est: $300 - $500
PRICE REALIZED $400
With variant date 1649 on title – rather than the standard 1709 as noted by Vinograd. The Bodleian copy has the date 1709 with both chronogram letters “Cheth” and “Samach” of the word “Chesed” enlarged on the title-page. The present copy has only the letter “Cheth” enlarged. In Igereth HaShabath Abraham ibn Ezra recounts a dream in which it was ordained to compose this work to make amends for a prior misunderstood teaching that seems to have led to the unintentended desecration of the Sabbath by a wayward student. (ff. 110v-112r) See EJ, Vol. VIII, cols. 1163-4.