Ohalei Shem.

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $2,200

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author

MENACHEM ELIEZER BEN LEVI.

Place

Russia-Poland

Publication

18th century

Description

Manuscript in Hebrew, written in a cursive Aschkenazic hand on paper.

summary

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of which only portions have been published (by S. A. Lieder in 1972). The manuscript includes Talmud commentary, novellae from R. Shimon of Kosvi (the author’s uncle) and R. Yonathan Eyebeshuetz. Head of the Yeshiva of Minsk, R. Menachem Eliezer (d. 1807) was the author of “Yair Kino” on Tractate Kinim which was highly praised by the Vilna Gaon. R. Menachem Eliezer’s father, author of Atereth Rosh, was Rabbi of Keidan (Kedainiai, Lithuania).

ff. 80. Lacking opening three leaves, stained in places. Contemporary calf, worn. Sm. 4to.

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