… Sepher HaMussar [ethics]

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

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Lot 88

KALATZ, JUDAH.

… Sepher HaMussar [ethics]

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Title within architectural arch. ff. 136 (of 140), lacking the four leaves before the title containing an additional introduction from the author’s son. Scattered marginalia, several leaves supplied from another copy, slight worming in places, upper corners of first sections stained,marginal repair on a few leaves. Modern elegantly tooled calf. 4to. Vinograd, Const. 159; Yaari, Const. 124; Mehlman 978; St. Cat. Bodl. 5693, 1 (ed. rara).

Constantinople: Eliezer b. Gershom Soncino 1536-37

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,500

An ethical work with both rationalistic and kabbalistic expositions. Contains chapters concerning social and commercial halacha. The author was a mystic and moralist who resided in Tlemcen, Algeria at the turn of the 15th-century. Concerning the Kalatz Family, see S. Z. Havlin, LeToldoth Mishpachath Al-Calatz, in Kiryat Sepher, Vol. 49, (1974) pp. 643-56. Havlin cites S. Schechter and H. Enelow, who opine that portions of the Sepher HaMussar were “adapted” from Israel Alnaqua’s Menorath HaMa’or.