Sepher Tanya [compilation of Jewish law and custom as applied by the Jews of Italy (Minhag Bnei Roma)]

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

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author

[ANAV, YECHIEL BEN YEKUTHIEL(?) / ANAV, ZEDEKIAH BEN ABRAHAM (?)]

printer

Vincenzo Conti

Place

Cremona

Publication

1565

Description

Second edition. Title within architectural arch.

references

Vinograd, Cremona 36.

summary

“An assemblage of all the laws and customs proper for every Jewish man, in clear and easy language” (title). Due to the many similarities between this work and Shibbolei HaLeket, it has been suggested that the authors of the two works were either students of the same teacher, or that one of the works was intended to be a concise form of the other. See M.J. Heller, The Sixteenth-Century Hebrew Book, pp. 564-5.

ff. (6) 136. Browned, few paper repairs, fore-edges worn in places, stamps removed from opening two leaves. Modern calf, elaborately blind-tooled. Sm. 4to.

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