Me’ametz Ko’ach [sermons and eulogies]

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $600

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author

ALMOSNINO, MOSES

printer

Asher Parenzo for Giovanni di Gara

Place

Venice

Publication

1588

Description

Second edition. Printer’s devices on title and final leaf

references

Vinograd, Venice 726; Habermann, di Gara 102; not in Adams

summary

Twenty-eight (thus ko'ach, the numerical Hebrew equivelant to 28) sermons by R. Moses Almosnino (c.1515-c.1580), preacher of the Neveh Shalom Congregation and an important communal leader of the Salonikan Jewish community. Almosnino draws on a broad repertoire of medieval interpreters: Maimonides, Nachmanides, R. David Kimchi, Ibn Shuaib, et al. See EJ, Vol. II, cols. 669-671

ff.236. Censor's signature on final leaf. Stamps on title, light staining. Blind-tooled sheep with gilt corners, rebacked; owner's name stamped on upper cover. 4to

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