Sepher Kavanoth [“Book of Meditations.”]

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

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

Back to Catalogue Download Catalogue

<Previous Lot

/349

Next Lot>

Lot 159

VITAL, CHAIM.

Sepher Kavanoth [“Book of Meditations.”]

Hebrew manuscript written in more than one cursive Aschkenazi hands on paper. Marginal additions. ff. 322. Variously stained in places, some fraying. Later vellum. Thick 4to.

Lizhensk: 1781

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

PRICE REALIZED $18,000

The scribe signs his name at the conclusion of Part II: “Kalman(?) son of Shaul Te’omim, son of Aaron, son of the Gaon… Meir of Premyslau, here in the holy community of Lizhensk, 17th Cheshvan, 1781.” An attractive copy of an important Kabbalistic work written in the hometown of the celebrated Noam Elimelech (1717-87) during the great mystic’s lifetime.