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

Estimate: $2,000–$2,500
Hammer price: $2,200

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author

EMDEN, JACOB

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By the Author

Place

Altona

Publication

1761-68

Description

FIRST EDITION . Two volumes. Diagram of the Land of Israel (Vol. II, f. 97v)

references

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

summary

The author 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 original 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 Yaavet.

Vol. I: ff. (1), 63, 67-69, 69-103. * Vol II: ff. 90, 90, 92-95, 97-99. Foxed, final leaves of vol. I wormed in places, f. 102 loose, gutter split. Contemporary uniform calf, scuffed and worn. Folio.

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