Masoreth Ha’brith [“Tradition of the Covenant”- treatise on the Masorah]

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

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author

ANGEL, MEIR BEN ABRAHAM OF BELGRADE AND SOFIA

printer

Aaron ben Isaac Prostitz

Place

Cracow

Publication

1619

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within typographical border. Printer’s device on verso of title (Yaari no. 39)

references

Vinograd, Cracow 361

summary

Meir ben Abraham Angel of Belgrade was a renowned preacher who lived in the sixteenth- and seventeenth centuries. He traveled throughout Poland, Italy, and Greece and died in Safed. In Masoreth Ha’brith, the Author sets out some 700 homilies based upon texts that accord with the Masorah

ff. (146). Lightly browned, dampstained in places, marginal annotation on f.(110). Typed bibliographic note tipped to title-page. Recent boards. Sm. 4to

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