Mor U’ketziah [novellae to Karo’s Orach Chaim]

Estimate: $1,500–$2,500
Hammer price: $1,500

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author

EMDEN, JACOB

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Place

Altona

Publication

1761-68

Description

FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound in one (each with individual title page). Illustration of the Land of Israel on verso of f. 97 (vol. II)

references

Vinograd, Altona 68; Mehlman 805; Raphael no. 5-i (illustrated)

summary

Emden alludes to many personal details of his life at the end of the introduction and on f. 102. of Vol. I where he also relates how a fire broke out in his home and destroyed portions of the manuscript of the present work. An appendix of two leaves includes a responsum on Shatnetz by the author’s son Meshulam Zalman, Rabbi of the Hambro Congregation of London and a poem written by Emden in praise of his son with the acrostics "Meshulam and Yaavetz."

ff. (1), 63, 67-69, 69-103. ff. 90, 90, 92-95, 97-99. Browned and stained in places, final two leaves inserted from another shorter copy, previous owner's stamps. Later half-calf. Folio

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