Livyath Chen [grammar].

AUCTION 74 | Thursday, November 09th, 2017 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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IMMANUEL BEN JEKUTIEL OF BENEVENTO

Livyath Chen [grammar].

<<DELUXE COPY, PRINTED ENTIRELY ON BLUE PAPER.>> Title within architectural arch. <<FIRST EDITION.>> ff. 108. Stained, lower margin of opening and closing several leaves repaired with some loss, marginal worming, stamps removed, faint owner’s inscriptions. Modern blind-tooled tan calf. 4to.

Mantua:

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $2,250

<<RARE, BIBLIOPHILIC EDITION. PRINTED ENTIRELY ON BLUE PAPER.>> The author, a highly regarded Italian Kabbalist, helped facilitate the first printing of the Zohar in Mantua in 1558. A mystical element clearly influences the Livyath Chen, indeed passages from the Zohar are found therein. See I. Tishbi, Kovetz Perakim, Vol. I, pp. 148-43. See Treasures of the Valmadonna Trust Library - Otzroth Ya’akov, Colored Paper no. 8.