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Auction 68 · Lot 160
VITAL, CHAIM.
- Estimate
- $2,000–$3,000
- Hammer price
- $11,000
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Place
Near East
Publication
17th century
Description
Sha’ar HaHakdamoth. ff. 137. With Autograph notations by Yedidiah Abulafia and others and signatures of R. Nissim Sutton and R. Ya’akov Entebbe.
* AND: Sha’ar Ma’amarei Rashbi. ff. 104 (incomplete). Marginalia throughout, some by the copyist who notes corrections.
summary
R. Yedidiah Abulafia was a son of R. Yaakov Almazi, the grandson of R. Ya’akov Beirav. Another manuscript with his notations is extant in the National Library of Israel (Beth Moed ms. 8*121). See M. Benayahu (Sepher Beth Moed, in: Sepher HaZikaron R. Y. Nissim, 1985) who assumes that Abulafia lived c. 1740. However based on the notation in this manuscript (f. 23b) where he raises a question that was resolved by R. Moshe Galante (d. 1689), clearly R. Abulafia who wrote the notations is that named rabbi who died in 1684 - as recorded in the list of tombstones of the sages of Smyrna. See Freiman, Inyanei Shabthai Tzvi (Berlin, 1913) p. 142.
First vol. heavily worn and browned with loss of text. Uniform modern vellum. 4to.
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