Auction 30 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Shefa Tal, Hanau, 1612 – Signatures and Glosses
Opening: $400
Sold for: $550
Including buyer's premium
Shefa Tal, index to kabalistic wisdom, by Rabbi Shabtai Sheftel Horwitz of Prague. Hanau, 1612. First edition. With many kabalistic illustrations.
Owner's signature in Sefardi writing: "Moshe ben Ya'akov Uziel". Signatures and kabalistic glosses in Yemenite handwriting.
"Keys to open locked rooms… in the hidden treasures of the secrets of kabalistic wisdom…". Important kabalistic work, based on the kabbalah of Rabbi Moshe Kordovero and his book Pardess Rimonim. One of the first kabbalah books printed in Western Europe. Many approbations by leading Torah scholars. Amongst them: Rabbi Shlomo Efraim Luntshitz, Rabbi of Prague, author of Kli Yakar and Rabbi Yeshaya Horowitz author of Shnei Luchot HaBrit (Shla).
[10], 87, 89-93 leaves, (lacking last leaf 94) 29.5 cm. Fair-poor condition. Wear and tear, with damage to text, many stains and moth damage. Yemenite leather binding.
On cover leaves, Yemenite manuscript leaves and damaged leaves from a Chumash with Rashi and Chizkuni commentaries, [apparently from the first edition, Venice, 1524?].
Owner's signature in Sefardi writing: "Moshe ben Ya'akov Uziel". Signatures and kabalistic glosses in Yemenite handwriting.
"Keys to open locked rooms… in the hidden treasures of the secrets of kabalistic wisdom…". Important kabalistic work, based on the kabbalah of Rabbi Moshe Kordovero and his book Pardess Rimonim. One of the first kabbalah books printed in Western Europe. Many approbations by leading Torah scholars. Amongst them: Rabbi Shlomo Efraim Luntshitz, Rabbi of Prague, author of Kli Yakar and Rabbi Yeshaya Horowitz author of Shnei Luchot HaBrit (Shla).
[10], 87, 89-93 leaves, (lacking last leaf 94) 29.5 cm. Fair-poor condition. Wear and tear, with damage to text, many stains and moth damage. Yemenite leather binding.
On cover leaves, Yemenite manuscript leaves and damaged leaves from a Chumash with Rashi and Chizkuni commentaries, [apparently from the first edition, Venice, 1524?].