Biur al Koheleth.

Estimate: $1,500–$2,000
Hammer price: $1,300

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author

ETTIN, SCHNEUR CHANOCH HENOCH

Place

(Vitebsk

Publication

1848)

Description

Autograph Hebrew Manuscript, written in a cursive Aschkenazic hand on paper. Scattered marginalia. From the library of Haim Liberman.

summary

UNPUBLISHED AUTOGRAPH COMMENTARY TO the Book of Ecclesiastes. A note on the final leaf identifies the author, a Dayan in Vitebsk (see Otzar HaRabanim 20175) who composed this manuscript during the cholera epidemic of 1848. The author’s father, R. Isaiah, was also Rabbi in Vitebsk; his grandfather, R. Nathan Nata, was a son-in-law of R. Yom Tov Lipman Schick of Shklov. .

ff. 43. Previous owners’ marks, stained, slight worming in places. Contemporary boards, covers loose, worn. 4to.

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