Ner Mitzvah [commentary to Solomon ibn Gabirol’s Azharoth for Shavu’oth, with text]

AUCTION 62 | Thursday, June 26th, 2014 at 1:00

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Lot 142

PESANTE, MOSHE.

Ner Mitzvah [commentary to Solomon ibn Gabirol’s Azharoth for Shavu’oth, with text]

Second edition with a new introduction and many additions. Wide-margined copy. ff. 68. Some staining, a few tiny wormholes. Modern elaborately tooled morocco. 4to. Vinograd, Salonika 86; St. Cat. Bodl. 6916,16; Roest 1369; Mehlman 616 (lacking two leaves of the introduction).

Salonika: Joseph Ya’avetz 1569

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

The author, R. Moses Pesante, was an emissary from Safed who traveled through the Balkans between 1565 and 1573, publishing his works in Constantinople and Salonika. He was killed in 1573 by Turkish brigands in Makrinovo near the Greek city of Arta. (See EJ, Vol. XIII, col. 328; Ya’ari, Shluchei Eretz Israel [1977], pp. 236, 889).