Sepher Ha-Musar

Estimate: $4,000–$5,000
Hammer price: $3,500

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author

KALATZ, JUDAH.

printer

Eliezer b. Gershom Soncino

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1536-37

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within architectural arch

references

Vinograd Const. 159; Yaari Cont. 124; Mehlman 978; St. Cat. Bodl. 5693, 1 (ed. rara)

summary

AN ETHICAL WORK WITH both RATIONAL AND KABBALISTIC EXPOSITIONS concerning social and commercial halacha. The author was a mystic and moralist, who resided in Tlemcen, Algeria at the beginning of the fifteenth century. Concerning the Kalatz Family, see S. Z. Havlin, Le-Toldoth Mishpachath Al-Calatz, in Kiryat Sepher, Vol. 49, (1974) pp.643-56. Havlin cites S. Schechter and H. Enelow, who opine that portions of the Sepher Ha-Musar were “adapted” from Israel Alnaqua’s Menorath ha-Maor

ff. 140. Part of outer decorative margin of title repaired in facsimile, staining and browning , some marginal repairs. Modern tooled calf. 4to

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