Kovetz Kethavim [collected writings, including on Shabthai Tzvi]

Estimate

$1,500–$2,000

Hammer price

$1,500

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author

CARPI, SOLOMON JOSEPH BEN NATHAN.

Place

(Livorno?)

Publication

1744

Description

Manuscript in Hebrew, written in an Italian cursive hand on paper. In another hand on blank paste-downs are family records of births.

summary

This literary collection includes “Toldoth Shabthai Tzvi” (ff. 1-13) published by Nachum Brill (Vilna, 1879) as well as many unpublished letters and poems by Solomon Carpi. Carries a dedication at front to his brother Yisrael Chaim Carpi, to whom much of the correspondence is addressed. Also contains an elegy to R. Immanuel Hai Ricchi who was murdered by highway robbers between Modena and Bologna (ff. 96a-99a). Another manuscript by Carpi from 1747 is extant in the Ginzburg Collection (ms. no. 713) Russian State Library, Moscow. Also see G. Scholem, Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah (1975) p. 936, no. 17.

ff. 1-16 (ff. 17-23 lacking); 24-131; 138-140; 144-148; 148-162, mispaginated in places, lightly stained. Contemporary vellum, worn. 12mo.

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