Menorath ha-Ma’or [“The Candelabrum of Light:” Ethical Treatise]

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

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

author

ABOAB, ISAAC.

printer

G. Ruffinelli

Place

Mantua

Publication

1563

Description

Provenance: Joseph Schreiber, the youngest son of the Chasam Sofer. Previous owner’s signatures on front fly-leaf “Yuzpe ben-Ha-G[aon] M[oshe] S[ofer] - Joseph Schreiber” and further on final leaf in Ashkenazic and Italian hands, including Shmaya Aboulafia of Pesaro. Marginalia in an Aschkenazic hand.

references

Vinograd Mantua 95.

summary

The signatory on the front fly-leaf was the youngest son of the Chasam Sofer (1825-1883). In turn, his-son-in-law was R. Yehudah Greenwald, Rabbi of Satmar. For more details, see M.A.Z. Kinstlicher, HeChasam Sofer V’Talmidav (2005) pp. 204-6 (includes facs. of signature).

ff.116. Some staining, marginal repair on title and elsewhere. Modern calf gilt. Folio.

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