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Auction 10 · Lot 324
LUZZATTO, SAMUEL DAVID.
- Estimate
- $4,000–$6,000
- Hammer price
- $4,000
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Place
Italy
Publication
1837-60
Description
(ShaDa”L). Archive containing an extensive collection of Luzzatto’s writings on numerous topics, including Biblical commentaries, first drafts (signed) of letters to Kerem Chemed and other periodicals, discussing Pinner’s Talmud translation, relationship to S.Y. Rapaport and Y.S. Reggio, matters of censorship, etc. With a large number of sermons, eulogies, poems, Halachic and scholarly notes (apparently, lecture notes) all in Italian, also an incomplete Italian translation of the prayers and library catalogue.
With: Letters, sermons and notes by the Shada”l’s primary student, Jacob Haim Pardo. Pardo apparently transcribed his teacher’s commentaries to the Pentateuch, his brother, Isaac Pardo supplied corrections. With additional letters and documents pertaining to the Pardo Family, including letters to the Shada”l.
summary
Samuel David Luzzatto (1800-1865) was one of the founders of modern Jewish scholarship, famed for his exceptional linguistic talent, philological, exegetical and historical writings.
An unusual multi-layered archive, deserving of intensive research.