Mor U’ketziah [novellae to Yosef Karo’s Orach Chaim]

AUCTION 60 | Thursday, November 14th, 2013 at 1:00

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Lot 114

EMDEN, JACOB

Mor U’ketziah [novellae to Yosef Karo’s Orach Chaim]

<<FIRST EDITION>> . Two volumes. <<Diagram of the Land of Israel>> (Vol. II, f. 97v) Vol. I: ff. (1), 63, 67-69, 69-103. * Vol II: ff. 90, 90, 92-95, 97-99. Foxed, final leaves of vol. I wormed in places, f. 102 loose, gutter split. Contemporary uniform calf, scuffed and worn. Folio. Vinograd, Altona 68; Mehlman 805; Raphael no. 5-i (illustrated)

Altona: By the Author 1761-68

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $2,200

The author alludes to many personal details of his life at the end of the introduction and on f. 102. of Vol. I where he also relates how a fire broke out in his home and destroyed portions of the original manuscript of the present work. An appendix of two leaves includes a responsum on Shatnetz by the author’s son Meshulam Zalman, Rabbi of the Hambro Congregation of London and a poem written by Emden in praise of his son with the acrostics “Meshulam and Yaavet.