Auction 49 Part I - Books, Chassidism, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
- (-) Remove jewri filter jewri
- and (67) Apply and filter
- manuscript (67) Apply manuscript filter
- gloss (41) Apply gloss filter
- item (35) Apply item filter
- print (35) Apply print filter
- letter (26) Apply letter filter
- italian (25) Apply italian filter
- manuscripts, (25) Apply manuscripts, filter
- african (16) Apply african filter
- moroccan (16) Apply moroccan filter
- north (16) Apply north filter
- yemenit (16) Apply yemenit filter
- bukharian (10) Apply bukharian filter
- letters, (10) Apply letters, filter
- persian (10) Apply persian filter
Displaying 61 - 67 of 67
Auction 49 Part I - Books, Chassidism, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
January 19, 2016
Opening: $800
Sold for: $1,500
Including buyer's premium
Mikraot Gedolot – Nevi'im Achronim [Yeshaya, Yirmiya, Yechezkel and Trei Asar], with commentaries. Venice, 1547-1548]. Printed by Daniel Bomberg. "The Kabbalistic commentary Ma'ase HaMerkava" by the Radak is printed after the Book of Yechezkel. Signature on title page: "Yitzchak Lampronti". Several glosses and corrections in Italian handwriting [possibly, one or a few are in the handwriting of Rabbi Yitzchak Lampronti?]. Erasures and censor corrections. Rabbi Yitzchak Lampronti (1679-1757, Otzar HaRabbanim 10786), a Torah scholar, physician and leading Italian rabbi. Rabbi and head of yeshiva in Ferrara. His disciples served as rabbis of leading Italian communities. He was renowned for his monumental work, the Pachad Yitzchak series – the first halachic encyclopedia of which only part was printed in his lifetime, contains much material of various subjects connected to Italian Jewry, as well as many halachic responsa by Italian rabbis which were preserved only in this work. [1], 442-685 leaves. 42.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains and wear. Tears to first leaves, restored. Worming. Non-contemporary binding. From the library of Prof. Moshe David Cassuto.
Category
Italian Jewry – Manuscripts, Glosses and Printed Items
Catalogue Value
Auction 49 Part I - Books, Chassidism, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
January 19, 2016
Opening: $300
Sold for: $550
Including buyer's premium
Pachad Yitzchak, by Rabbi Yitzchak Lampronti. Four volumes: Letters Nun-Samech. Lyck, 1866-1885; Letters Kuf-Resh, Berlin, 1855; Letter Shin, Berlin, 1886; Letter Taf, Berlin, 1887. First edition. On the pages (primarily in the first volume) are dozens of long glosses handwritten by Rabbi Yosef Yare, Rabbi and posek in Ferrara, who added corrections and glosses from a manuscript of Mahadura Batra. These additions are noted with the initials M.B. (Mahadura Batra). In some places, he also added his own comments and glosses. On the title page of the first volume he writes: "I have edited it with the manuscript which I have accessed. Yosef Yare, Iyar 1885". Several glosses are brought in the name of "Y.C.Y." or "Addition Y.C.Y.". Four volumes. 23 cm. Varied condition. Coarse tears to many leaves of one volume.
Category
Italian Jewry – Manuscripts, Glosses and Printed Items
Catalogue Value
Auction 49 Part I - Books, Chassidism, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
January 19, 2016
Opening: $300
Sold for: $400
Including buyer's premium
Collection of books of Italian printings, in Italian and Ladino. · Vayikra, with haftarot according to Italian tradition. Venice, [1755]. · Prayers (to be recited) at gravesites. Torino, [ca. 1760]. Two copies, one is missing leaves, substituted with handwritten completions. · Ma'ane HaLashon, Italian-Hebrew dictionary. Reggio, 1812. · Passover Haggadah, with Ladino translation and illustrations. Livorno, [1882]. Ya'ari 446; Otzar HaHaggadot 626. Three copies. One is complete. One is missing the first four leaves, the other is missing 11 leaves. All three copies have leaves bound out of order. · Passover Haggadah, with Italian instructions. [Italy, unidentified copy]. Incomplete copy. Eight books. Size and condition vary.
Category
Italian Jewry – Manuscripts, Glosses and Printed Items
Catalogue Value
Auction 49 Part I - Books, Chassidism, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
January 19, 2016
Opening: $250
Sold for: $350
Including buyer's premium
"Kol Rina VeYeshu'a BeOhalei Zadikim". Printed poem in honor of "Chavurat Chatzot Layla" from Lugo. [Venice, 1754]. Name of the author, Menachem Shabtai Yechye, appears in acrostic. Prepared for print by Shmuel Daniel ben Uzriel Riviero. Illustration of an angel blowing a trumpet appears on top. 51X39 cm. Fair condition. Many tears, restored. Upper part missing and restored. Creases and stains. Markings with ink (ink scorched the paper in some spots).
Category
Italian Jewry – Manuscripts, Glosses and Printed Items
Catalogue Value
Auction 49 Part I - Books, Chassidism, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
January 19, 2016
Opening: $400
Unsold
Sechiyot HaChemda, tikunim for the month of Nissan according to the book Chemdat Yamim. Venice, [1772]. Before the title page is a prayer in Italian writing to recite at the time of the burning of chametz. Under the prayer is an illustration of Yitzchak's ram. Next to the illustration is a poem beginning with the words Sechiyot Chemda. Under the poem are the initials of the signature of the writer: YMY. On the margins are glosses in Italian writing with addition to the phrases. 48 leaves. 15 cm. Good condition. Stains. Worming. Contemporary leather binding, with damages.
Category
Italian Jewry – Manuscripts, Glosses and Printed Items
Catalogue Value
Lot 166 Seder Hatarat Nedarim, Mesirat Moda'a and Tashlich – Verona, 1827 – Elaborate Printer's Mark
Auction 49 Part I - Books, Chassidism, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
January 19, 2016
Opening: $300
Sold for: $875
Including buyer's premium
Hatarat Nedarim, Mesirat Moda'a and Tashlich, "Printed by the desire of the youths Yisrael and his brother Ashkenazim, grandsons of the wealthy Shlomo Aharon HaCohen". Verona, 1827. Preceding the title page is a unique leaf with the printer's mark - copper-etching with the Hebrew title "Device of the Shlomo Aharon HaCohen Family" (does not appear in the book "Diglei Hamadpisim Ha'ivriim" by Ya'ari). Stamps of the "Livyat Chen and Bikur Cholim Society". [1], 14 leaves. 18.5 cm. Good condition, few stains. Contemporary cardboard binding, worn.
Category
Italian Jewry – Manuscripts, Glosses and Printed Items
Catalogue Value
Auction 49 Part I - Books, Chassidism, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
January 19, 2016
Opening: $250
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium
Ele HaDevarim. Mantua, [1777]. Printed by Eliezer Shlomo of Italy. Regulations of appraisal and management of payment of the community taxes and regulations of the Va'ad HaKlali, for the duration of three years, from Monday, the 6th of Tevet, [December 1776] until the end of February 1780. On the last leaf is the "ban" for those who breach the regulations, by Rabbi Ya'akov ben R' Simcha Yehuda Saravel. [6] leaves. 21 cm. Good condition.
Category
Italian Jewry – Manuscripts, Glosses and Printed Items
Catalogue Value
