Peirush Pirkei Avoth Me’Ha’Ar’i [commentary based upon Isaac Luria]

AUCTION 66 | Thursday, November 19th, 2015 at 1:00

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

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Peirush Pirkei Avoth Me’Ha’Ar’i [commentary based upon Isaac Luria]

Manuscript in Hebrew, written in semi-cursive Sephardic hand on paper. ff. [16]. Previous owners mark removed, margins frayed, light wear, leaves loose. Later blind-tooled sheep. 4to.

Orient?: 17th century

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $4,750

<<A variant text of the Ari’s commentary to Pirkei Avoth.>> This unique arrangement includes: Commentaries by R. Chaim Vital (subsequently printed in Sha’ar Ma’amarei Chazal), with several introductory lines by R. Abraham Castro. The present text varies from the printed version, indeed several passages in this manuscript do not appear elsewhere, including novellae by R. Yehudah Mishan (a disciple of the Ar’i), R. Ya’akov Zemach and R. Nathan Shapiro.