Ma’ayan HaChochmah [on the 613 precepts in verse and with a commentary]

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

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BERLIN, NOAH CHAIM TZVI.

Ma’ayan HaChochmah [on the 613 precepts in verse and with a commentary]

<<FIRST EDITION>> ff. 4, 142. Browned, previous owners marks. arginalia in pencil by a later owner. Modern morocco. 4to. Vinograd, Rodelheim 28.

Rodelheim: Heidenheim & Baschwitz 1804

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $300

R. Noah Chaim Tzvi Berlin (1734-1802) was Rabbi of Altona-Hamburg-Wandsbeck and a most prominent Talmudist, who succeeded R. Jonathan Eybeschuetz and R. Raphael Hamburger in serving the rabbinate of this important center of scholarship. Wolf Heidenheim was one of his most outstanding disciples. See E. Duckesz, Ivah LeMoshav, pp. 74-77 and 139-40.