Auction 43 · Lot 36

Menorath ha-Ma’or [“The Candelabrum of Light”: Ethical Treatise]

Estimate: $1,200–$1,500
Hammer price: Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

ABOAB, ISAAC

printer

G. Ruffinelli

Place

Mantua

Publication

1563

Description

Provenance: Joseph Schreiber, the youngest son of the Chaham Sopher

references

Vinograd Mantua 95; St. Cat. Bodl. 5294, 6

summary

RARE. The signatory on the front fly-leaf was the youngest son of the Chatham Sofer (1825-1883). His-son-inlaw was R. Yehudah Greenwald, Rabbi of Satmar. For more details, see M.A.Z. Kinstlicher, He-Chatham Sofer V’Talmidav (2005), pp. 204-06 (includes facs. of signature) The publishers state on the title-page that based upon an old manuscript they have corrected many errors that appeared in earlier editions. First published in Constantinople in 1514, Menorath ha-Ma’or has been an immensely popular and inspirational ethical work throughout the ages.

ff.116. Some staining, marginal repair on title and elsewhere, marginalia in an Aschkenazic hand. Previous owners' signatures on front flyleaf "Yuzpe ben-Ha-G[aon] M[oshe] S[ofer] - Joseph Schreiber" and further on final leaf in Ashkenazic and Italian hands, including Shmaya Aboulafia of Pesaro. Later gilt calf. Folio

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