Sha’arai Dimah [“The Gates of Tears”]

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: $600

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author

ALBELDA, MOSES

printer

Giovanni di Gara

Place

Venice

Publication

1586

Description

FIRST EDITION. Printer’s device on title

references

Vinograd, Venice 696; Habermann, di Gara 85; not in Adams

summary

The present work is a philosophical commentary to the Book of Lamentations discussing the vanity of the world and the suffering of Man. The Author concludes that human suffering and the death of the Righteous, atone for, and heal the soul. Moses Albelda (1500-c.1583) was born either in Spain or Salonika. He acted as rabbi of Arta, Greece, and later in Valona, Albania. See EJ, Vol. II, col. 529

ff. (10),140. Stained. Title with inscription in a Sephardic hand, signed Yehoshua Bedarsi). Modern limp vellum, upper cover with scribal calligraphy. Sm. 4to

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