Auction 100 – Important Hebrew Manuscripts and Books from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection
Six Hebrew Grammar Books Bound Together – Venice, 1546 – Signature of Rabbi Michel Scheuer – Early Leather Binding Adorned with Clasps
Opening: $1,200
Estimate: $1,500 - $3,000
Sold for: $6,000
Including buyer's premium
Six Hebrew grammar books bound together. Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1546.
1-4. Dikdukim, four books on Hebrew grammar printed together (each with a divisional title page): Mahalach Shevilei HaDaat by R. Moshe Kimchi, with the commentary of R. Eliyahu Bachur; Petach Devarai by an anonymous Sephardic author; Tzachut BeDikduk by R. Avraham ibn Ezra; Moznei Leshon HaKodesh by R. Avraham ibn Ezra.
5. Sefer HaHarkavah by R. Eliyahu Bachur. Including Pirkei Eliyahu by the same author, with a divisional title page (starting from leaf 45).
6. Marpe Lashon by R. Moshe ibn Habib.
Signature on first title page:
"Came to me from G-d, Michel son of… R. Tebele Scheuer" – R. (Yechiel) Michel Scheuer (ca. 1739-1810), Torah scholar and kabbalist, considered one of the leading yeshiva deans in Germany and a prominent rabbi of his times. He was a disciple of R. Natan Adler, and he served as yeshiva dean in Mainz where his father R. Tebele was serving as Rabbi. The young R. Moshe Sofer of Frankfurt (later known as the Chatam Sofer) studied in this yeshiva for about two years and later eulogized him as "the mentor of my youth… famous for his sharp wit, uprooting and grinding mountains; an exceptionally wise elder who studied diligently, and under whom I studied in 1776 and 1777 while he was yeshiva dean in Mainz" (Derashot Chatam Sofer 77c). From 1778-1782 he served as Rabbi of Worms, and from 1884 he served as Rabbi and yeshiva dean of Mannheim for nearly thirty years. Many leading Ashkenazi rabbis were his disciples – the introduction to the novellae of the Baal Shem of Michelstadt states that the author was a disciple of R. Michel, who taught him kabbalah.
"Came to me from G-d, Michel son of… R. Tebele Scheuer" – R. (Yechiel) Michel Scheuer (ca. 1739-1810), Torah scholar and kabbalist, considered one of the leading yeshiva deans in Germany and a prominent rabbi of his times. He was a disciple of R. Natan Adler, and he served as yeshiva dean in Mainz where his father R. Tebele was serving as Rabbi. The young R. Moshe Sofer of Frankfurt (later known as the Chatam Sofer) studied in this yeshiva for about two years and later eulogized him as "the mentor of my youth… famous for his sharp wit, uprooting and grinding mountains; an exceptionally wise elder who studied diligently, and under whom I studied in 1776 and 1777 while he was yeshiva dean in Mainz" (Derashot Chatam Sofer 77c). From 1778-1782 he served as Rabbi of Worms, and from 1884 he served as Rabbi and yeshiva dean of Mannheim for nearly thirty years. Many leading Ashkenazi rabbis were his disciples – the introduction to the novellae of the Baal Shem of Michelstadt states that the author was a disciple of R. Michel, who taught him kabbalah.
Additional inscriptions and deleted signatures on front endpaper and first title page. Handwritten gloss to one leaf.
Dikdukim: [4], 51, [1] blank leaf, 53-236 leaves. Sefer HaHarkavah: 83, [1] leaves. Marpe Lashon: [26] leaves. 15 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Tears to title page and small open tear, affecting text, repaired with paper. Light worming. Many handwritten inscriptions to title page of Dikdukim. Early leather binding, with clasps. Wear and damage to binding.
CB, no. 3451; Zedner, p. 574.
Early Printed Books – Italy
Early Printed Books – Italy