Kol Milin [“The Voice of Words:” a poetic drama].

Estimate

$1,000–$1,500

Hammer price

$2,000

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author

CASTELLO, ABRAHAM ISAAC BEN JOSEPH.

Place

Livorno

Publication

1744

Description

Manuscript in Hebrew, written in semi-cursive Italian hand on paper.

summary

A drama, the players of which include wisdom, joy, jealousy, wealth etc. Written in honor of the wedding of Aaron, son of Raphael, son of R. Emanuel Ergas (Chief Rabbi of Livorno) and Deborah, daughter of Jacob di Kushta. The author presented this work as a gift to the bride and groom. Many stanzas written in poetic form with vowel points. Ancona-born Abraham Castello (1726–89) worked for some time in the Livorno coral industry before becoming a cantor, and subsequently was rabbi and preacher in Livorno. Several of his occasional poems were published in A.B. Piperno’s collection Kol Ugav (1846). Excerpts from his unpublished halachic work Si’aḥ Avraham were incorporated into the prayerbook Tefillah Zakah.

ff. 23. Occasional light wear, few crude taped repairs. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, rubbed. 8vo.

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