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

Adam Sichli – Tiengen, 1560 – First Edition

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Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
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Adam Sichli – Hadrat Kodesh, kabbalistic commentary on the Rambam's thirteen principles of faith, by R. Shimon son of R. Shmuel of France. Tiengen: [Yosef son of Naftali], 1560. First edition.
Kabbalistic work containing a commentary on the thirteen principles of faith listed by the Rambam in his Commentary to the Mishnah (Sanhedrin, chapter Chelek, containing the Rambam's words with a few differences), comparing them to the thirteen attributes and the ten commandments.
On verso of last page, signature of censor Giovanni Domenico Vistorini, dated 1609.

[24] leaves. 20.5 cm. Wide margins. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. New binding.

Rare edition. The 16th-century Tiengen press (Waldshut-Tiengen, southern Germany, near the French border) printed only six Hebrew books over the course of a few months in 1559-1560.

CB, no. 7224,1.

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