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Auction 7 · Lot 643

Zacuto, Moses. Sepher Kol Harema”z [commentary to the Mishnah]. With extensive Hebrew Manuscript glosses by David Tevele Schiff

Estimate
$2,000–$3,000
Hammer price
$2,250

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author

(SCHIFF, DAVID TEVELE KATZ)

printer

Solomon Proops

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1719

summary

Printed volume with lengthy marginal notations by David Tevele Schiff (d.1792), Chief Rabbi of the Great Synagogue, London, from 1765 until his death These important notes, apparently unpublished, extend through the entire Six Orders, but are particularly detailed concerning the more esoteric parts of the Mishnah The volume, signed by David Schiff on the title, is also inscribed on the endpapers by his son Moses, attesting the work’s ownership to R. David
ff.(4),170. Title taped. Contemporary calf, covers detached. 4to
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