Almenara de la Luz (Menorath HaMe’or). Translated from Hebrew into Spanish by Jacob Hagiz.

AUCTION 72 | Thursday, March 16th, 2017 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Holy Land Maps & Fine Art

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Almenara de la Luz (Menorath HaMe’or). Translated from Hebrew into Spanish by Jacob Hagiz.

<<FIRST SPANISH EDITION.>> Printed in two columns within linear borders. pp. (6), 270 (mispaginated: pp. 301-04, i.e. 251-54). Ex-library, title-page laid down with lower portion supplied in manuscript, repairs on pp. 265-66, final two leaves with outer column lost. Contemporary boards, rebacked. Folio. Kayserling, pp. 3 and 51.

Livorno: 1656

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $800

“The Almenara de la Luz was produced in a large, handsome…format, intended as… adornment for the libraries of prosperous ex-Marranos” (E. Carlebach). The translator, Jacob Hagiz (1620-74), reached out to Marranos returning to the tradition of the Jewish People. If in other halachic works, Hagiz adopted a rather harsh stance to those who had once converted to Christianity, in this work he is all for reconciliation. See E. Carlebach, The Pursuit of Heresy (1990) pp. 22-4.