(ChID”A). Sha’ar Yoseph [commentary to Talmudic Tractate Horayoth; final 40 leaves with responsa]

AUCTION 69 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2016 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Holy Land Maps and Ceremonial Objects

Back to Catalogue Download Catalogue

<Previous Lot

/361

Next Lot>

Lot 37

AZULAI, CHAIM YOSEPH DAVID.

(ChID”A). Sha’ar Yoseph [commentary to Talmudic Tractate Horayoth; final 40 leaves with responsa]

<<FIRST EDITION.>> With dedications in Spanish and Portuguese pp. 16, ff. 120, 40. Some staining, slight marginal worming not affecting text, previous owners’ stamps and signatures. Later boards, spone worn, boards loose. Folio. Vinograd, Livorno 72; M. Benayahu, Rabbi H.Y.D. Azulai (1959), p. 185, no. 1.

Livorno: Antonio Santini 1757

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

<<The Chida’s first published work.>> Although aged 34 when Sha’ar Yoseph was published, it was written when the author was just 17. The lengthy approbation by the author’s father Raphael Isaac Zerahyah Azulai, as well as the introduction, both contain valuable biographical details. The peripatetic nature of the author (who was a shada”r, or rabbinic emissary dispatched to collect funds on behalf of the Jews of Eretz Israel) is reflected in the haskamoth provided from sages located in Jerusalem, Hebron, Cairo, Livorno, Amsterdam and Algiers. An incomparable bibliophile, The Chid”a made use in his writings of many rabbinic manuscripts that are now since lost.e introduction, contain valuable biographical details. See E. Toaff, Guardians of Our Heritage (1958) p. 155.