Sepher HaMussar

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

KALATZ, JUDAH

printer

Giacomo Ruffinelli & Partner

Place

Mantua

Publication

1560

Description

Second corrected edition. Previous owner's signature on title: David Joseph Olivetti

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, some staining and marginal worming, final few leaves remargined, f. 25 from another copy. Later boards. Loose in later boards. Sm. 4to

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