Group of five works, bound in five volumes, uniformly bound and housed in fitted box:

Estimate: $3,000–$5,000
Hammer price: $2,700

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

ALSHEICH, MOSHE.

printer

Giovanni di Gara

Place

Venice

Publication

1601 and 1606 (last one)

Description

* Devarim Tovim [commentary to Koheleth. ff. 35 (i.e. 41), (1). Vinograd, Venice 922. * Devarim Nechumim [commentary to Eichah]. ff. 38, (1). Vinograd, Venice 923. * Masath Moshe [commentary to Esther]. ff. 86. With woodcut illustrations on f. 83v.Vinograd, Venice 931. * Einei Moshe [commentary to Ruth]. ff. 46, (1). Vinograd, Venice 934. * Shoshanath Ha’Amakim [commentary to Song of Songs]. ff. 60. Vinograd, Venice 1024. FIRST EDITION of all (second edition of last one).

summary

A native of Adrianople, Turkey, R. Moshe Alsheich (1508-93) settled in Safed, where he was was ordained by R. Yoseph Karo (upon whom had been conferred the reintroduced Semicha of R. Jacob Berab). Part of the cabal of scholars during Safed’s golden age, R. Moshe Alsheich was a teacher of R. Chaim Vital. Alsheich is one of the few rabbis to be universally known as ‘Hakadosh’ - The Holy. His homiletical Biblical commentary is celebrated as a fundamental classic.

Variously stained in places, few marginal repairs. Calf-backed marbled boards. 8vo.

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