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Auction 23 · Lot 97
FIGO, AZARIAH
- Estimate
- $400–$600
- Hammer price
- $350
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Place
Venice
Publication
v.d
Description
Gedulai Terumah. First Edition. TItle within architectural border, ff. (6), 382,. [Vinograd, Venice 1255; Mehlman 858]. Venice, Vendramin, 1643. * Binah Le’itim [sermons and eulogies]. First Edition. Title within decorative woodcut architectural arch. ff. 4, 200, (12). [Vinograd, Venice 1276]. Venice, Francesco Vicheri, 1648
summary
The author was one of the most famous Italian Rabbis of his time (1579-1647). The Gidulei Terumah is a valuable commentary to Samuel Sardi’s Sepher Haterumah, the first Halachic work devoted solely to civil law. In the Binah Leitim, Sermon no. 26 for Passover was later censored in the 1799 Brünn edition of Binah Le’itim. See R. Margolioth, Aresheth Vol. I, p.422. For an in depth analysis of Figo’s scholarly place in history, see I. Bettan, The Sermons of Azariah Figo, in HUCA, Vol. VII, pp. 457-95, who emphasizes “...the important position the work occupies in the development of the Jewish sermon
Some wear. 4to
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