Mishnath Chassidim (Kabbalah).

Estimate: $3,000–$5,000
Hammer price: $30,000

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author

RICCHI, RAPHAEL IMMANUEL CHAI.

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1727

Description

FIRST EDITION. THE RAPHAEL IMMANUEL CHAI RICCHI COPY, with hundreds of marginal notes, corrections and additions in the hand of the author. Also with marginalia in other hands. Accompanied by a detailed description by Prof. Yosef Avivi.

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1309.

summary

One of the great Italian Rabbis and kabbalists, R. Ricchi (1688-1743) emigrated to Eretz Israel in 1737. He was murdered by pirates on a voyage back to Europe to visit his home country. An autograph manuscript note on f. 3b (of the first unnumbered leaves of the introduction) states that one of the author’s sources of Lurianic material is from “the complete Sepher Eitz Chaim that I merited to read here in Jerusalem and the Sepher Sha’arei Kedusha by R. Chaim Vital.”

ff. (6), 132, (2). Some staining and worming, small burn along margins. Modern boards. Sm. 8vo.

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