Livyath Chen [grammar].

Estimate: $2,000–$2,500
Hammer price: $2,250

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

IMMANUEL BEN JEKUTIEL OF BENEVENTO

printer

Jacob ben Naphtali Hakohen

Place

Mantua

Publication

1557

Description

DELUXE COPY, PRINTED ENTIRELY ON BLUE PAPER. Title within architectural arch. FIRST EDITION.

references

Vinograd, Mantua 39; Mehlman 1239; Adams I-52.

summary

RARE, BIBLIOPHILIC EDITION. PRINTED ENTIRELY ON BLUE PAPER. The author, a highly regarded Italian Kabbalist, helped facilitate the first printing of the Zohar in Mantua in 1558. A mystical element clearly influences the Livyath Chen, indeed passages from the Zohar are found therein. See I. Tishbi, Kovetz Perakim, Vol. I, pp. 148-43. See Treasures of the Valmadonna Trust Library - Otzroth Ya’akov, Colored Paper no. 8.

ff. 108. Stained, lower margin of opening and closing several leaves repaired with some loss, marginal worming, stamps removed, faint owner’s inscriptions. Modern blind-tooled tan calf. 4to.

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