Pri Eitz Chaim [Kabbalah]

Estimate: $4,000–$6,000
Hammer price: $15,000

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author

(VITAL, CHAIM).

Place

Germany

Publication

17th-century

Description

Two volumes. Manuscript in Hebrew, written in a cursive Aschkenazic hand on paper. From the library of Ya’akov Poppers-Katz , Chief Rabbi of Frankfurt (1718-40), with his acquisition inscription in Vol. I.

summary

Two large volumes written in a clear neat hand with large square headings on each page. Scattered notations on the margins presumably by the scribe who signs as “Yitzchak” (esp. vol. II). Unclear who he was, but it is certainly apparent he was exceptionally well versed in Kabbalah.

Volume I: ff. 350. * Volume II: ff. 254. Browned and stained in places, final leaf of vol. I silked, tear to margin of opening leaf in vol. II. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Thick 4to.

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