Auction 42 · Lot 213

Seder Keri’ah ve-Tikun le-Leilei Chag Shavu’oth ve-Hoshanah Raba [Readings for the All Night Vigils of Pentecost and Hoshana Raba]. Compiled by Moses Cordovero and ascribed to Isaac Luria

Estimate: $1,500–$2,500
Hammer price: $2,200

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author

(LITURGY)

printer

David de Castro Tartas

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1669

Description

Title within wreathed architectural columns. PRINTED ON BLUE PAPER

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 370; Fuks, 454; Mehlman 593 (blue-paper copy)

summary

A BLUE-PAPER COPY At the request of wealthy bibliophiles, a handful of copies of this work were printed on colored paper. According to Fuks, the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana, Amsterdam, have copies on blue paper. The Bodleian also has a copy on green paper. The first Amsterdam edition of this popular anthology, which includes selected readings from Pentateuch, Prophets, Writings, Talmud, Midrash and Zohar. The readings were compiled by R. Moses Cordovero (RaMa"K), though they are sometimes ascribed to R. Isaac Luria (AR”I).

ff. 74 (mispaginated, actually ff.76). Lower margins of several leaves shortened with virtually no loss of text. Contemporary vellum. 12mo

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