Auction 46 · Lot 44

Shulchan shel Arba [laws and customs on proper conduct at table, benedictions, the Banquet in the World to Come and resurrection of the dead]

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $3,000

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

author

BACHIAH BEN ASHER.

printer

Samuel Latif

Place

Mantua

Publication

1514

Description

first edition. Marginalia.

references

Vinograd, Mantua 15; Mehlman 961; St. Cat. Bodl. col. 779, no. 16. (Mehlman and Vinograd call for ff.16, Steinschneider has ff.14, as in our copy. Another copy sold by Kestenbaum & Company (Sale XXVIII, lot 5), also contained ff.14

summary

Rabbeinu Bachiah was a Kabbalist of the school of R. Solomon ben Adret of Barcelona (RaSHB”A). He is most famous for his comprehensive commentary to the Torah, but also for his topical Kad HaKemach and Shulchan shel Arba. Extensive research into his thought was undertaken by Ephraim Gottlieb: The Kabbalah in the Writings of R. Bahya ben Asher (Jerusalem, 1970). The colophon of this edition mistakenly attributes the author as Nachmanides, subsequent editions correctly state the author to be Rabbeinu Bachiah.

ff. 14. Issued without title-page. Trimmed, few light stains, slight marginal repair to first and final leaf. Modern tooled calf, with slip-case. Sm. 4to

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