Pri Eitz Chaim [Kabbalah]

AUCTION 65 | Thursday, June 25th, 2015 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Objects and Graphic Art

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Lot 54

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Pri Eitz Chaim [Kabbalah]

Two volumes. Manuscript in Hebrew, written in a cursive Aschkenazic hand on paper. From the library of <<Ya’akov Poppers-Katz>> , Chief Rabbi of Frankfurt (1718-40), with his acquisition inscription in Vol. I. Volume I: ff. 350. Volume II: ff. 254. Browned and stained in places, final leaf of vol. I silked, tear to margin of opening leaf in vol. II. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Thick 4to.

Germany: 17th-century

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

PRICE REALIZED $15,000

Two large volumes written in a clear neat hand with large square headings on each page. Scattered notations on the margins presumably by the scribe who signs as “Yitzchak” (esp. vol. II). Unclear who he was, but it is certainly apparent he was exceptionally well versed in Kabbalah.