VITAL, CHAIM.

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 160

VITAL, CHAIM.

Sha’ar HaHakdamoth. ff. 137. With Autograph notations by Yedidiah Abulafia and others and signatures of R. Nissim Sutton and R. Ya’akov Entebbe. <<* AND:>> Sha’ar Ma’amarei Rashbi. ff. 104 (incomplete). Marginalia throughout, some by the copyist who notes corrections. First vol. heavily worn and browned with loss of text. Uniform modern vellum. 4to.

Near East: 17th century

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $11,000

R. Yedidiah Abulafia was a son of R. Yaakov Almazi, the grandson of R. Ya’akov Beirav. Another manuscript with his notations is extant in the National Library of Israel (Beth Moed ms. 8*121). See M. Benayahu (Sepher Beth Moed, in: Sepher HaZikaron R. Y. Nissim, 1985) who assumes that Abulafia lived c. 1740. However based on the notation in this manuscript (f. 23b) where he raises a question that was resolved by R. Moshe Galante (d. 1689), clearly R. Abulafia who wrote the notations is that named rabbi who died in 1684 - as recorded in the list of tombstones of the sages of Smyrna. See Freiman, Inyanei Shabthai Tzvi (Berlin, 1913) p. 142.