Me’ametz Ko’ach [sermons and eulogies]

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: $750

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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, f. 225b (see Ya'ari, Hebrew Printers' Marks 18) and final leaf (Ya'ari 19; Yudlov, Hebrew Printers' Marks 3)

references

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

summary

Me’ametz Ko’ach contains twenty-eight sermons (thus ko'ach, the Hebrew equivalent numerical of 28) by this celebrated preacher of the Neveh Shalom Congregation of Salonika (today Thessaloniki), Greece. Almosnino draws upon a broad repertoire of medieval interpreters: Maimonides, Nachmanides, R. David Kimchi, Ibn Shuaib, et al. See EJ, Vol. II, cols. 669-71

ff. 236 (mispaginated but complete). Light waterstains and marginal worming, otherwise an attractive copy. Recent blind-tooled morocco. 4to

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