Auction 40 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Levush Even HaEzer and Choshen Mishpat, Venice 1620 – Many Glosses and Signatures
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Levush HaButz V'Ha'argaman, Even HaEzer. By Rabbi Mordechai Yaffe. Venice, 1620. Bound with: Levush Ir Shushan, Choshen Mishpat, Venice, 1620.
On the title page of Levush Ir Shushan is a curly calligraphic signature [cutoff, apparently from 1680 (numerical value of the word 'nafshi')] by Rabbi "Eliyahu [Shuraki?]". On the title page of Levush HaButz V'Ha'argaman is another signature in a later handwriting "Eliyahu Shurki".
Hundreds of long and short glosses (c. 1706), by leading sages of Tlemcen (Algeria), "Diligent is the study of the Torah and exceptional in fear of Heaven and piety", lived for over one hundred years and died in 1706. His son Rabbi Se'adya Shuraki, a well known poet, wrote the book Shir Chadash on Psalms 119 and other books. From 1760-1830, another sage named Rabbi Eliyahu ben Rabbi Yitzchak Shuraki lived in Tlemcen.
87 leaves; 162, [2] leaves. 33 cm. Fair condition, worm damages and wear. Spotting and fungus marks. Cutoff glosses. Old binding (not original).
At the end of Even Ha'Ezer is an approbation by eight Venice rabbis, among them Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh of Modena.
On the title page of Levush Ir Shushan is a curly calligraphic signature [cutoff, apparently from 1680 (numerical value of the word 'nafshi')] by Rabbi "Eliyahu [Shuraki?]". On the title page of Levush HaButz V'Ha'argaman is another signature in a later handwriting "Eliyahu Shurki".
Hundreds of long and short glosses (c. 1706), by leading sages of Tlemcen (Algeria), "Diligent is the study of the Torah and exceptional in fear of Heaven and piety", lived for over one hundred years and died in 1706. His son Rabbi Se'adya Shuraki, a well known poet, wrote the book Shir Chadash on Psalms 119 and other books. From 1760-1830, another sage named Rabbi Eliyahu ben Rabbi Yitzchak Shuraki lived in Tlemcen.
87 leaves; 162, [2] leaves. 33 cm. Fair condition, worm damages and wear. Spotting and fungus marks. Cutoff glosses. Old binding (not original).
At the end of Even Ha'Ezer is an approbation by eight Venice rabbis, among them Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh of Modena.
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