Sepher HaMussar

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $900

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author

KALATZ, JUDAH

printer

Giacomo Ruffinelli & Partner

Place

Mantua

Publication

1560-1

Description

Second corrected edition

references

Vinograd, Mantua 70; Mehlman 979

summary

An ethical work focusing on prayer and the Festivals, as based upon the Kabbalah. The author resided in Tlemcen, Algeria at the beginning of the 15th-century. Concerning the Kalatz family, see S. Z. Havlin, LeToldoth Mishpachath Al-Calatz, in Kiryath Sepher, Vol. 49 (1974) pp. 643-56

ff. 140. Trimmed and lightly stained in places, few leaves neatly remargined. Later boards. Sm. 4to

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