Siach Yitzchak.

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $600

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author

CHAYUT, ISAAC

printer

Mordechai Katz

Place

Prague

Publication

1587

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within historiated border, Kabbalistic diagrams throughout

references

Vinograd, Prague 54; Mehlman 915

summary

A series of Kabbalistic poems with commentary, all of whose themes relate to the First Nights of Passover. The title of this rare book is unusually tucked away at the bottom of the title page in small Rashi letters. Isaac Chayut was a scion of a branch of the Chassidei Provence who later settled in Bohemia, where he was appointed Rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva of Prague in 1584. His contemporary, David Gans, commends him as one of the most praise-worthy rabbis of the generation

ff. 19 (of 20, lacking f. 17). Several lines of ff. 18-19 supplied in facsimile. Modern calf. Sm. 4to

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