Livyath Chen [on grammar and prosody].

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

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author

IMMANUEL BEN JEKUTHIEL OF BENEVENTO.

printer

Jacob ben Naphtali Hakohen

Place

Mantua

Publication

1557

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within woodcut architectural arch. Couple of marginal notations. Title page with signature of Yitzchak b. Yehudah Frankinsohn.

references

Vinograd, Mantua 39.

summary

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. 148-153.

ff. (8), 108. Two introductory leaves shorter, few light stains. Bound in Valmadonna-custom chestnut blind-tooled calf, titled in gilt on spine. Sm. 4to.

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