Mor U’ketziah [novellae to Karo’s Orach Chaim]

Estimate: $4,000–$5,000
Hammer price: $4,000

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author

EMDEN, JACOB

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Place

Altona

Publication

1761-68

Description

FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound in one (each with individual title page). Illustration of the Land of Israel on verso of f.97 (vol. II). See E.& G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land, pp. 82-3, w.33

references

Vinograd, Altona 68; Mehlman 805; Raphael no. 5-i (illustrated)

summary

Emden alludes to many personal details of his life at the end of the introduction and on f. 102. of Vol. I where he also relates how a fire broke out in his home and destroyed portions of the manuscript of the present work. Rarely found, this copy contains an appendix of 2ff. Including a responsum on Shatnetz by the author’s son Meshulam Zalman, Rabbi of the Hambro Congregation of London, and a poem written by Emden in praise of his son with the acrostics "Meshulam and Yaavetz"

ff.(1), 63, 67-69, 69-103. ff. 90-95, 97-99, lacking f. 3 of Vol. II. Marginal note on f. 4a of Vol. II. Browned and stained in places, previous owner's signature on title and f. 36 of Vol II. Later boards, rubbed and chpped. Folio

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