Sepher Tanya

Estimate: $4,000–$6,000
Hammer price: $5,000

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author

(ANAV, YECHIEL BEN YEKUTHIEL (?) / ANAV, ZEDEKIAH BEN ABRAHAM(?)).

printer

Samuel Latif

Place

Mantua

Publication

1514

Description

FIRST EDITION. Printed without a title

references

Vinograd, Mantua 16; St. Cat. Bodl. 7449, 2 (ed. rarissima); Mehlman 725

summary

Composed in the 13th-century, the Sepher Tanya is a compilation of Jewish law and custom as applied by the Jews of Italy (Minhag Bnei Roma). There is considerable overlap between the present work and another work of the same genre, Shibolei ha-Leket also composed by Zedekiah Anav. See EJ, Vol. II, cols. 937-938 and M. Waxman, History of Jewish Literature Vol. II, pp. 130-132 regarding the disputatious authorship of Tanya

ff.(100). Trace stained, otherwise an attractive crisp copy. Modern calf. 4to

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