ISRAEL BEN BENJAMIN OF BELZEC. Yalkut Chadash [kabbalistic midrashim]

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: $300

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author

(BINDING).

Place

(Prague)

Publication

(1687)

Description

Binding utilizing an early Hebrew manuscript vellum leaf (15th-century, perhaps earlier?). Well-formed large square Hebrew in a scribal Aschkenazic hand, containing the elegy for Ninth of Av by Kalonymos ben Judah, "Amarti she'u meni, amarer be-mar naphshi ve-ruchi akarer" (see Davidson, Thesaurus of Medieval Poetry, Vol. I, p. 272, no. 5971)

references

Vinograd, Prague 557; Y. Yudlov, Alei Sefer, XI (1984), pp. 138-9, no. 5

ff. (156). Lacking title-page, etc. Lightly stained, some tears, closely shaved. Binding variously worn, rebacked. 4to

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