(The SHeLa”H Hakodosh). Emek Berachah [laws and customs of blessings and prayers]

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

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author

HOROWITZ, ABRAHAM BEN SHABBATHAI SHEFTEL, AND HIS SON ISAIAH

printer

Isaac Prostitz

Place

Cracow

Publication

1597

Description

FIRST EDITION. Scholarly marginalia in an Aschkenazic hand with a lengthy note on f. 25a

references

Vinograd Cracow 199; Mehlman 816; St. Cat. Bodl. 4233:10; Roest 41

summary

One of the great Talmudists of the day, the author (known as R. Abraham Sheftels) was a disciple of Moses Isserles. The co-author, his son, grew to become the revered SHeLa”H Hakadosh. The lengthy introduction by both father and son contain Kabbalistic elements which later became the hallmark of the SHeLa”H Hakadosh

ff.60, 63-66, 69-130. Complete, although misbound and mispaginated (the Roest and Mehlman copies also mispaginated). Title and additional leaves repaired affecting few words. Later vellum. 8vo

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