HADASSI, JUDAH. Eshkol Ha-Kopher

Estimate

$300–$500

Hammer price

$500

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author

(KARAITICA)

printer

M. Tirishkin

Place

Goslow (Eupatoria)

Publication

1836

Description

FIRST EDITION

references

Vinograd, Goslow 15

summary

Written in rhymed prose, the work embodies science, philosophy, legends, folklore, anti-Christian and anti-Rabbinic poemics as well as an analytic exposition of the precepts. This “encyclopedia of Karaite lore and polemics is perhaps the most widely quoted manual of Karaite ways and beliefs. It was long acclaimed as an inexhaustibe treasury of early texts... and as the definitive record of spiritual achievement by four centuries of Karaite endeavor.” Zvi Ankori, Karaites In Byzantium (1959) p.28

ff. 2,155. Contemporary calf, rubbed. Folio

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