Auction 47 · Lot 22

Manoth Halevi [Kabbalistic commentary to the Book of Esther]

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: $800

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

author

ALKABETZ, SOLOMON HALEVI

printer

Giovanni di Gara

Place

Venice

Publication

1585

Description

FIRST EDITION. On title, former owner’s inscription in Hebrew: “Mordechai Cohen of Palestrina" with stamps

references

Vinograd, Venice 680; Habermann, di Gara 73; Adams B-1337

summary

Rivkind notes four variant issues of this edition. Our copy is a "hybrid" of Rivkind's Variants 1 and 2. It resembles No.1 inasmuch as Mordechai ben Baruch Tivoli's introduction (printed on the verso of the title) contains 24 (as opposed to 21) lines. However, it resembles No. 2 by virtue of the fact that it contains 232 (as opposed to 231) leaves, adding a commentary of R. Menachem Azariah of Fano to a passage in Zohar and shifting Isaac ben Gershon Treves' Apology to the next leaf. See Y. Rivkind, "Dikdukei Sofrim," Kiryath Sepher, Vol. X (1933-4), pp. 493-96

ff. (4), 225 (i.e. 231), (1). Taped repairs, stained, marginally wormed. Modern morrocco. Sm. 4to

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