Auction 30 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Sefer HaZohar – Izmir, 1862 – Glosses
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Sold for: $1,000
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Sefer Zohar on the Torah, section one of Sefer Shemot, with glosses of the Chida. Izmir, [1862].
Hundreds of glosses in Oriental [Turkish?] writing, from unidentified writer. The writer numerously presents Gematriot [assignation of numeric values to Hebrew letters] and allusions, and in a few instances critiques the glosses of the Chida. Title page of book contains signature “Yitzchak Moshe Baruch” [apparently from Jerusalem, son-in-law of the Ra’abad Rabbi Ya’akov Tzadik].
[1], 3-251, 11 [instead of: 15] leaves. 26 cm. Good condition, stains, moth stains. Old binding.
Hundreds of glosses in Oriental [Turkish?] writing, from unidentified writer. The writer numerously presents Gematriot [assignation of numeric values to Hebrew letters] and allusions, and in a few instances critiques the glosses of the Chida. Title page of book contains signature “Yitzchak Moshe Baruch” [apparently from Jerusalem, son-in-law of the Ra’abad Rabbi Ya’akov Tzadik].
[1], 3-251, 11 [instead of: 15] leaves. 26 cm. Good condition, stains, moth stains. Old binding.
Handwritten Glosses
Handwritten Glosses