Sepher Kavanoth [“Book of Meditations.”]

Estimate: $3,000–$5,000
Hammer price: $18,000

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author

VITAL, CHAIM.

Place

Lizhensk

Publication

1781

Description

Hebrew manuscript written in more than one cursive Aschkenazi hands on paper. Marginal additions.

summary

The scribe signs his name at the conclusion of Part II: “Kalman(?) son of Shaul Te’omim, son of Aaron, son of the Gaon… Meir of Premyslau, here in the holy community of Lizhensk, 17th Cheshvan, 1781.” An attractive copy of an important Kabbalistic work written in the hometown of the celebrated Noam Elimelech (1717-87) during the great mystic’s lifetime.

ff. 322. Variously stained in places, some fraying. Later vellum. Thick 4to.

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