Auction 51 Part I - Books Chassidism Manuscripts Rabbinical Letters
Shulchan Aruch Even HaEzer, Amsterdam, 1698 - Signature and Glosses of Rabbi Avraham Mimran, 18th Century Safed Scholar
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Shulchan Aruch with Be'er HaGola. Even HaEzer. Amsterdam 1698. Printed by Immanuel Athias. Each part has two title pages. The first title page is illustrated with figures of angels (etchings). On the second title page of Even HaEzer is the date 1698 [same as the date of the Shla, printed that same year in Amsterdam in the same printing press]. In the colophon from the time the printing was concluded is the date 1698.
On both title pages are curly calligraphic signatures of Rabbi "Avraham son of Yitzchak Mimran". Many glosses in his own handwriting.
Rabbi Avraham Mimran, a leading Safed Torah scholar in the second half of the 18th century, was renowned for his travels as emissary to the Diaspora, sometimes accompanied by his friend the Maharit Algazi, a Jerusalem emissary.
[1], 178, 178-180, [1] leaves. 16 cm. Fair condition. Wear and stains. Tears and worming. Ancient leather binding.
Provenance: The David Sassoon collection. No. 1301. These novellae were printed in the book "Nachalat Avot - Asufat Genazim M'Beit Mishpachat Sassoon", Jerusalem 2007, pp. 12-45.
On both title pages are curly calligraphic signatures of Rabbi "Avraham son of Yitzchak Mimran". Many glosses in his own handwriting.
Rabbi Avraham Mimran, a leading Safed Torah scholar in the second half of the 18th century, was renowned for his travels as emissary to the Diaspora, sometimes accompanied by his friend the Maharit Algazi, a Jerusalem emissary.
[1], 178, 178-180, [1] leaves. 16 cm. Fair condition. Wear and stains. Tears and worming. Ancient leather binding.
Provenance: The David Sassoon collection. No. 1301. These novellae were printed in the book "Nachalat Avot - Asufat Genazim M'Beit Mishpachat Sassoon", Jerusalem 2007, pp. 12-45.
Handwritten Glosses
Handwritten Glosses