Pachad Yitzchak.

AUCTION 63 | Thursday, November 13th, 2014 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 69

CANTARINI, ISAAC.

Pachad Yitzchak.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Engraved frontispiece of the Binding of the Isaac. The Lazarus Goldschmidt copy, with his bookplate on front pastedown. Letterpress title. ff. (2), 53, (1). Lower portion of title-page laid down, additional copy of title-page tipped in (with noticeable loss), opening few leaves with marginal paper repairs. Later calf-backed marbled boards. 8vo. Vinograd, Amsterdam 521 (our copy with an additional leaf); Fuks 483 (not seen).

Amsterdam: Tartas 1685

Est: $500 - $700

Recounts the trials that befell the Jewish community of Padua after accusations of child ritual murder were raised on the 20th of Elul, 1684. Also with a history of the community of Padua and the rabbis that served there. The author, known by the Hebrew acrostic of his name “YeCHKaM” (Yitzchak Chaim Kohen Min HaChazanim), was one of the Paduan physician-poets who had some influence upon the young Moses Chaim Luzzatto (RaMCHa’L). “Min HaChazanim” is the Hebrew equivalent of the Italian surname “Cantarini.” See R. Abraham Hakohen of Zante and the Circle of Physician-Poets in Padua, in HaSifrut, 26 (1978):115; and M. Benayahu, Kabbalistic Writings of R. Moses Chaim Luzzatto (1979) p. 239.