Chiddushim [novellae]

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

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

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Lot 253

AUERBACH, TZVI HIRSCH

Chiddushim [novellae]

<<Autograph>> Manuscript in Hebrew, written in a cursive Aschkenazic hand on paper. Additional letters and related manuscripts tipped in. With index prepared by the author’s son, R. Aviezri Zelig Auerbach. ff. (304), (1), (118). Extremities lightly worn, stained in places, institutional markings. Uniform later roan, rubbed, spine detached. Thick 4to.

N.p.: 18th century

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

PRICE REALIZED $5,500

Dense volume with much varied content, including: Commentary to the Passover Hagadah, novellae to the Talmud and Midrash, along with sermons for weddings, festivals and the weekly Torah reading. With eulogies for such notables as Rabbis Jacob Emden (f. 241a), Abraham Broda of Frankfurt (f. 243a), Mordechai Halberstadt of Dusseldorf and Nathaniel Weil of Karslruhe (f. 245a). Also contains novellae of other authors, “recorded here for posterity.” See Y. Avivi, Rabbinic Manuscripts [in the] Mendel Gottesman Library, Yeshiva University (New York, 1998) no. 63. <<This manuscript has not been published to date.>>