Auction 100 – Important Hebrew Manuscripts and Books from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection

Shibolei HaLeket – Venice, 1546 – First Edition

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Shibolei HaLeket, laws, rulings and customs, by R. Tzidkiyah son of Avraham Anav the physician. Venice: Daniel Bomberg, [1546]. First edition.
On last page: "The holy work was completed with the utmost possible care with G-d's assistance, by Cornelio Adelkind, [1546]".
Inscription on title page, on the identity of the author of the book: "In Siftei Yeshenim [by R. Shabtai Bass] he writes that it was authored by R. Tzidkiyah son of R. Avraham the physician". On p. 8b, short gloss, trimmed. 


55 leaves. 28.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Small marginal tears to title page. Stamps (some deleted by abrasion of leaf). New binding.


This edition is an abridgement of the first part of the original work, by an unknown author. Another abridgement of Shibolei HaLeket is Tanya (Tanya Rabati), printed in Mantua, 1514. On the various editions of the work, see: Y. Ta-Shma, Shibolei HaLeket and its Doublets, Italia, XI, 1995, pp. 47-51.


CB, no. 7449,1; Zedner, p. 788; Roest, p. 1161.

Early Printed Books – Italy
Early Printed Books – Italy