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Auction 47 · Lot 196

(LITURGY)

Estimate
$1,000–$1,500
Hammer price
$1,900

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

printer

n.p.

Place

Salonika

Publication

1741

Description

Sha’arei Rachamim [selected prayers with mystical meditations]. ff. (7), 146, (1). Title fragmentary. ff. 31-34 supplied from another copy, ff. 35-36 reversed, wanting ff. 85, 88, 107-12. [Vinograd, Salonika 243]. * WITH: (HAGADAH). Sha’arei Ratzon. Kabbalistic commentary by Chaim ben Abraham Hakohen of Aleppo. With commentary to other Festivals. ff. 57. [Vinograd, Salonika 244; Yaari 120; Yudlov 193, all with variant collation]

summary

The first printed edition of the Prayer-Book according to the custom of Isaac Luria (Nusach Ari). Together with the first Kabbalistic Hagadah. Both prepared by the mystic, Chaim ben Abraham Hakohen of Aleppo
Dampwrinkled, stained, some leaves tattered. Recent boards. 4to
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