Kan Tzipor [kabbalistic treatise]

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

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

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FANO, MENACHEM AZARIAH DA.

Kan Tzipor [kabbalistic treatise]

Manuscript in Hebrew, written in a fine rabbinic hand on paper. Multi-colored pen-and-ink title-page. From the library of <<RABBI NACHUM DOV-BER FRIEDMAN OF SADIGUR,>> signed by him on pink opening blank and with his two alternating stamps on title. ff. (3), 31. Previous owners marks. Contemporary blind tooled sheep. Lg. 8vo.

1871

Est: $1,500 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $3,250

Copied from an older Prague manuscript by the scribe, Dov Berel b. Yitzchak Aryeh of Zolishtchick (Bukowina). With a preface by the copyist concerning the original manuscript and the previous copyists. <<UNPUBLISHED>> work; a shortened version of “Kanfei Yonah,” published in Koretz, 1786. According to Ben Yaakov, Otzar Hasepharim (p. 530 no. 393) a similar manuscript is found in the Oppenheim collection, Oxford.