Ner Mitzvah [commentary to Solomon ibn Gabirol’s Azkaroth for Shavu’oth, with text].

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $1,600

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

author

PESANTE, MOSES.

printer

Joseph Ya’avetz

Place

Salonika

Publication

1569

Description

Second edition with a new introduction and many additions.

references

Vinograd, Salonika 86; Mehlman 616 (lacking two leaves of the introduction).

summary

The author was an emissary from Safed who traveled through the Balkans between 1565 and 1573, publishing his works in Constantinople and Salonika. In 1573 he was killed by Turkish brigands in Makrinovo near the Greek city of Arta. See Ya’ari, Shluchei Eretz Israel (1977) pp. 236, 889; EJ, Vol. XIII, col. 328.

ff. 68. Previous owners’ marks, browned with occasional light stains, title with paper repairs, few leaves neatly remargined, ff. 10-11 with some loss. Modern calf. Sm. 4to.

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