Almenara de la Luz (Menorath HaMe'or). Translated from Hebrew into Spanish by Jacob Hagiz.

Estimate

$1,000–$1,500

Hammer price

Not recorded

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author

ABOAB, ISAAC

Place

Livorno

Publication

1656

Description

FIRST SPANISH EDITION

references

Kayserling, pp. 3 and 51

summary

"The Almenara de la Luz was produced in a large, handsome... format, intended as... adornment for the libraries of prosperous ex-Marranos" (E. Carlebach). The author, Isaac Aboab lived in Toledo circa 1300. His Hebrew work, Menorath HaMe'or [“The Candelabrum of Light,”] a classic ethical work, became immensely popular. The translator, Jacob Hagiz (1620-74), reached out to the Marranos returning to the fold of the Jewish People. If in other halachic works, Hagiz adopted a rather harsh stance to those who had once converted to Christianity, in this work he is all for reconciliation. See E. Carlebach, The Pursuit of Heresy (1990) pp. 22-4

pp. (4 of 6), 270. Lacking title-page. Foxed and stained in places, f. 3 and final three leaves taped with loss. Later half-calf. Folio

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