Sepher Chathan Damim [Kabbalistic discourses on Brith Milah and Marriage following the Parshioth of the Pentateuch].

Estimate: $3,000–$4,000
Hammer price: $3,500

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author

RUNKEL, SOLOMON ZALMAN.

printer

Moses ben Bezalel Katz

Place

Prague

Publication

1605

Description

First Edition. Title within type-ornament border. Title-page with stamp of Benjamin Niederhofheim the Mohel of Frankfurt (1810-85).

references

Vinograd, Prague 138.

summary

R. Solomon Zalman Runkel (died c. 1426) was the teacher of R. Jacob Moellin (the MaHaRI”L). Runkel left his work unfinished, to be completed and brought to print by Isaac HaKohen, the son-in-law of the MaHaRa”L of Prague. See also M. J. Heller, The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book, Vol. I, pp. 150-51.

ff. (28). Lightly browned. Bound in Valmadonna-custom polished calf. Sm. 4to.

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