Mateh Dan-Cuzari

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $150

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author

(NIETO, DAVID)

Place

Italy

Publication

Early 19th Century

Description

Manuscript on paper in cursive Italian Hebrew hand. With copies of a portion from the Chemdath Hayamim on the first three leaves and a chapter of the Pardes Rimonim on the Tetragrammaton

summary

David Nieto (1654-1728) was the Haham of the Spanish-Portugese Synagogue in London. The Mateh Dan is a defense of Rabbinic Judaism against free-thinking former Marranos. He considered it as a second Kuzari in the tradition of Rabbi Yehuda Halevi

ff. 101. Lacking at leat one leaf at end. Later blind-ruled mottled-calf, spine in compartments. Folio

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