Peirush Pirkei Avoth Me’Ha’Ar’i [commentary based upon Isaac Luria]

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $4,750

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author

(ETHICS OF THE FATHERS)

Place

Orient?

Publication

17th century

Description

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

summary

A variant text of the Ari’s commentary to Pirkei Avoth. This unique arrangement includes: Commentaries by R. Chaim Vital (subsequently printed in Sha’ar Ma’amarei Chazal), with several introductory lines by R. Abraham Castro. The present text varies from the printed version, indeed several passages in this manuscript do not appear elsewhere, including novellae by R. Yehudah Mishan (a disciple of the Ar’i), R. Ya’akov Zemach and R. Nathan Shapiro.

ff. [16]. Previous owners mark removed, margins frayed, light wear, leaves loose. Later blind-tooled sheep. 4to.

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