Tzeror Hama’or [Kabbalistic commentray to the Pentateuch]

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $250

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author

SABA, ABRAHAM

printer

Giorgio di Cavalli

Place

Venice

Publication

1567

Description

Third edition. The Mayer Sulzberger copy. Title bearing printer’s device (Yaari, Printer’s Marks no. 34) within architectural arch

references

Vinograd, Venice 551; not in Adams

summary

This edition was the first listed on an Hebrew Index Expurgatorius prepared by Ecclesiastical authorities. It was ordered to be committed to flames. See Pierpont Morgan Library Catalogue, Hebraica from the Valmadonna Trust (1989) no. 30

ff. 164 (165) lacking f.8. Repaired on verso, f.2 remargined, few light stains. 19th-century vellum-backed marbled boards, rubbed. Folio

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