Sepher Tanya.

Estimate: $1,500–$2,000
Hammer price: $1,500

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

author

(ANAV, YECHIEL BEN YEKUTHIEL(?) / ANAV, ZEDEKIAH BEN ABRAHAM(?)).

printer

Samuel Latif

Place

Mantua

Publication

1514

Description

FIRST EDITION . Issued without a title. Scattered marginalia.

references

Vinograd, Mantua 16; St. Cat. Bodl. 7449, 2 (ed. rarissima); Mehlman 725.

summary

Composed in the 13th century, the Sepher Tanya is a compilation of Jewish law and custom as applied by the Jews of Italy (Minhag Bnei Roma). There is considerable overlap between the present work and another work of the same genre, Shibolei HaLeket also composed by Zedekiah Anav. See EJ, Vol. II, cols. 937-38 and M. Waxman, History of Jewish Literature Vol. II, pp. 130-32 regarding the disputatious authorship of Sepher Tanya.

ff. 99 (of 100 lacking opening leaf starting with the words “simanei sepher…”). Stained with light wear, wormed taped in places, marginal repairs, censored in places. Modern vellum-backed marbled boards. 4to.

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