Minchath Cohen [Halakhic compendium]

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: $600

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author

PIMENTEL, ABRAHAM COHEN

printer

David de Castro Tartas

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1668

Description

First edition.

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 360; Fuks, Amsterdam 449.

summary

An early adherant of Shabbetai Tzvi, Tartas printed the majority of the messianic prayer-books. This was the first work he published, subsequent to a year of inactivity, in the wake of the tremoil felt in Amsterdam, following the hopes for Redemption, through the agency of Shabbetai Tzvi, had been dashed

ff. 150. Marginal tear on f.136, lightly foxed. Contemporary vellum. 4to.

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