Chukath HaPesach

Estimate: $5,000–$7,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

(HAGADAH).

printer

Israel ben Abraham (Bak)

Place

Jerusalem

Publication

1843

Description

[“The Law of Passover”: Prefaced by “Ke’arath Keseph,” a lengthy panegyric by R. Joseph Ezovi of Perpignan; prayers and readings for the month of Nissan, and for the night of Passover; Passover Hagadah; and finally, Pirkei Avoth (Ethics of the Fathers)]. Edited by R. Avraham Ankawa. Texts of prayers in square Hebrew characters with nikud (vowel points); instructions in Judeo-Arabic in rabbinic type.

references

Yudlov 861.

summary

The second Hagadah printed in Jerusalem (see previous lot). The book bears the encomium (haskamah) of R. Chaim Abraham Gaguine, Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. He commends the man responsible for bringing the book to press - Reuben of Damascus.

ff. 84. Stained. Contemporary calf, worn. 12mo. Housed in custom solander box.

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