Extraordinary account of prophecies of Zadok of Grodno, predicting the Coming of the Messiah in the year 1706 - fifty years folllowing the 1666 Revelation of Shabthai Tzvi

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(SHABTHAI TZVI).

Place

Turin(?)

Publication

1693-5

Description

With selected passages of Ein Ya’akov with commentary by Abraham Samson b. Israel Levi Povini and Judah Samuel Sinai and a lexicon of epigrams. Brown ink on paper. Cursive Italian Hebrew script

references

See G. Scholem, Mechkarei Shabta’ut (1991) pp.575-78

summary

Encouraging sincere repentance and detailed instructions for ethical conduct in order to bring about the Redemption, movingly and earnestly written. Includes calculations (Gematria) in determining the Messianic era. Also makes note of a mystical “Ü”-like sign that R. Zadok bore on his fore-head

ff.26. Damp-soiled. Modern calf. Lg.4to

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