Ma’ayan HaChochmah [on the 613 precepts in verse and with a commentary]

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: $300

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author

BERLIN, NOAH CHAIM TZVI.

printer

Heidenheim & Baschwitz

Place

Rodelheim

Publication

1804

Description

FIRST EDITION

references

Vinograd, Rodelheim 28.

summary

R. Noah Chaim Tzvi Berlin (1734-1802) was Rabbi of Altona-Hamburg-Wandsbeck and a most prominent Talmudist, who succeeded R. Jonathan Eybeschuetz and R. Raphael Hamburger in serving the rabbinate of this important center of scholarship. Wolf Heidenheim was one of his most outstanding disciples. See E. Duckesz, Ivah LeMoshav, pp. 74-77 and 139-40.

ff. 4, 142. Browned, previous owners marks. arginalia in pencil by a later owner. Modern morocco. 4to.

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