Biur al Koheleth.

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

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

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Lot 94

ETTIN, SCHNEUR CHANOCH HENOCH

Biur al Koheleth.

Autograph Hebrew Manuscript, written in a cursive Aschkenazic hand on paper. Scattered marginalia. From the library of Haim Liberman. ff. 43. Previous owners’ marks, stained, slight worming in places. Contemporary boards, covers loose, worn. 4to.

(Vitebsk: 1848)

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,300

<<UNPUBLISHED AUTOGRAPH COMMENTARY TO the Book of Ecclesiastes.>> A note on the final leaf identifies the author, a Dayan in Vitebsk (see Otzar HaRabanim 20175) who composed this manuscript during the cholera epidemic of 1848. The author’s father, R. Isaiah, was also Rabbi in Vitebsk; his grandfather, R. Nathan Nata, was a son-in-law of R. Yom Tov Lipman Schick of Shklov. .