91 183 (HUNGARY). A Szegedi Chevra 1787-1887. Edited by Immanuel Löw and Salomon Klein. Unopened copy. Text in Hungarian and Hebrew. Many detailed lists of names. Folding colored lithographed plate of the cemetery tipped in at end. pp. 123. Leaves loose. Original printed wrappers, tears. Tall 4to. Szeged, 1887. $200-300 Upon publication, the Or Ha’Chaim commentary to Chumash was circulated extensively, where it achieved great popularity and veneration - especially among Chassidim. 184 (ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT). The Worms Machzor. Facsimile edition of one of the earliest dated (1272) illuminated Festival prayer-books from Southern Germany. ONE OF 330 NUMBERED COPIES. Two volumes. Plates and Text (prepared by Malachi Beit-Arie). Original lavishly blind-tooled calf with corner-pieces, clasps and hinges. Text volume: Calf-backed boards. Housed in original printed cloth solander box. Text in Hebrew and English. Thick folio. Vaduz & Jerusalem, Cyelar, 1985. $800-1200 185 (ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT). The Parma Psalter ONE OF 500 NUMBERED COPIES. Facsimile edition of the Thirteenth- Century Illuminated Hebrew Manuscript of The Psalms with a Commentary by Abraham Ibn Ezra. Two volumes. Text volume, prepared by Malachi Beit-Arie, Therese Metzger, etc., printed on blue paper. Limitation card with stamp of Publisher and Biblioteca Palatina in Parma tipped in. Formerly in the Stanley Batkin Collection. Original calf-backed vellum and full calf; slip-case. 12mo. London, Facsimile Editions, 1996. $1500-2000 ❧ The manuscript was in the collection of G.B. de Rossi (1742-1831). In 1816 de Rossi sold it to Napoleon’s wife, Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma for 100,000 francs. She presented it to the Palatina Library, Parma, where it presently resides 186 IBN ATTAR, CHAIM. Or HaChaim [commentary to the Chumash]. Second edition. Bound into five volumes. Lacking several opening leaves of Bereishith and several closing leaves of Devarim. Mispaginated, browned, variously worn and torn with taped repairs. Modern boards. 4to. Sold not subject to return.[Vinograd, Zolkiew 520.] Zolkiew, Gershon Madfis, 1799. $2000-3000 ❧ Renowned as a saintly Kabbalist, Moroccan born Chaim ibn Attar (1696-1743) migrated to Eretz Israel where he established the Midrash Keneseth Israel Yeshiva in Jerusalem. He is one of the few outstanding scholars to have the honorific HaKadosh (“The Holy”) attached to his name. (Others are the Shalo’h and the Alsheich). According to Chassidic lore, it was the fondest desire of the Ba’al Shem Tov to meet the holy “Ohr HaChaim.” Had the two luminaries met, it is said, the Messiah’s imminent arrival would have been certain.