Moses Galante. Shailoth U’Teshuvoth [responsa]. Published by the author’s son Yedidiah Galante, with his novellae to several Talmudic Tractates. Includes novellae of R. Isaac Aboab to Beitzah, Ra”N to Shavu’oth, and Rit”Ba to Bava Metzi’a.

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

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Lot 149

(KREMNITZ, YISSACHAR BAER OF).

Moses Galante. Shailoth U’Teshuvoth [responsa]. Published by the author’s son Yedidiah Galante, with his novellae to several Talmudic Tractates. Includes novellae of R. Isaac Aboab to Beitzah, Ra”N to Shavu’oth, and Rit”Ba to Bava Metzi’a.

<<FIRST EDITION>> of R. Isaac Aboab’s novellae to Beitzah. Title within woodcut architectural border. <<signature of Yissachar Ber of Kremnitz>> on f. 6b of the index (bound between ff. 70-1). ff. 190 (of 192), lacking final two leaves, ff. 6. Margins frayed with loss, few paper repairs, stained and wormed in places, paper repair on ff. 189-9 with some loss. Later boards, worn. Folio. Vinograd, Venice 1044.

Venice: Giovanni di Gara 1608

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

The signatory is apparently R. Yissachar Ber of Kremnitz, author of many Kabbalistic works especially pertaining to the Zohar including: Yesh Sachar (Prague, 1609), Pitchei Kah (Prague, 1609), Imrei Binah (Prague, 1611) and Mekor Chochmah (Prague, 1611). According to Gershom Scholem all these works are “the most useful” for the study of the Zohar (see Kabbalah, p. 239