Kovetz Kethavim [collected writings, including on Shabthai Tzvi]

AUCTION 68 | Thursday, April 07th, 2016 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial Objects and Graphic Art

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Lot 113

CARPI, SOLOMON JOSEPH BEN NATHAN.

Kovetz Kethavim [collected writings, including on Shabthai Tzvi]

Manuscript in Hebrew, written in an Italian cursive hand on paper. In another hand on blank paste-downs are family records of births. ff. 1-16 (ff. 17-23 lacking); 24-131; 138-140; 144-148; 148-162, mispaginated in places, lightly stained. Contemporary vellum, worn. 12mo.

(Livorno?): 1744

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,500

This literary collection includes “Toldoth Shabthai Tzvi” (ff. 1-13) published by Nachum Brill (Vilna, 1879) as well as many unpublished letters and poems by Solomon Carpi. Carries a dedication at front to his brother Yisrael Chaim Carpi, to whom much of the correspondence is addressed. Also contains an elegy to R. Immanuel Hai Ricchi who was murdered by highway robbers between Modena and Bologna (ff. 96a-99a). Another manuscript by Carpi from 1747 is extant in the Ginzburg Collection (ms. no. 713) Russian State Library, Moscow. Also see G. Scholem, Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah (1975) p. 936, no. 17.