Reshith Chochmah HaKatzar

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: $700

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

author

DE VIDAS, ELIJAH.

printer

Daniel Zanetti

Place

Venice

Publication

1600

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title in typographic border. On f. 83v. and f.116r. tailpieces. Previous owners’ marks, signature on first leaf, "Matloub Menashe Sutton (see Sutton, Aleppo: City of Scholars pp. 338-39)," extensive marginalia in a clear Sephardic script, some of a kabbalistic nature

references

Vinograd, Venice 912; Mehlman 1004

summary

Joseph Poieto created this popular abridged form of the Reshith Chochmah. For an analysis of Poieto's method, see M. Pachter, “Sepher Reshith Hochmah…ve-kitzurav,” in Kiryath Sepher, Vol. XLVII (1972), pp. 696-98

ff. 136, (19). Trimmed, some staining, slight marginal repair to title. Modern calf. 12mo

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