Auction 10 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Maharit Responsum – Signatures
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Sold for: $250
Including buyer's premium
Maharit responsum, Part I. By Rabbi Yossef Mitterani. Constansinople, 1642. First Edition.
Ownership signatures on leaf 1. Long signature in oriental handwriting: "…Yedidya Ha-Cohen" and short signature, both signatures are decorated.
Rabbi Yedidya Ha-Cohen, of the great sages of Jerualem, son of Rabbi Aryeh Yehudah Leib Ha-Cohen son of "Sha'ar Ephraim" of Vilna. Came to Jerusalem in 1686 and studied with the leading Sephardi sages. Married the daughter of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchaki, and published his book "Zera Avraham" in Constantinople in 1732. His cousin, the Ya'betz, in "Meggilat Sefer" writes about Rabbi Aryeh Yehudah Leib who "left a wise son".
More signatures: "Last owner Eliyahu Raphael Salonigo". "Raphael Yitzchak Amado" [a leading Turkish rabbi].
117 leaves. (6 leaves missing: title and introductions, last leaf of indices). 30cm. Fair-poor condition, moth-damages and fungi.
Ownership signatures on leaf 1. Long signature in oriental handwriting: "…Yedidya Ha-Cohen" and short signature, both signatures are decorated.
Rabbi Yedidya Ha-Cohen, of the great sages of Jerualem, son of Rabbi Aryeh Yehudah Leib Ha-Cohen son of "Sha'ar Ephraim" of Vilna. Came to Jerusalem in 1686 and studied with the leading Sephardi sages. Married the daughter of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchaki, and published his book "Zera Avraham" in Constantinople in 1732. His cousin, the Ya'betz, in "Meggilat Sefer" writes about Rabbi Aryeh Yehudah Leib who "left a wise son".
More signatures: "Last owner Eliyahu Raphael Salonigo". "Raphael Yitzchak Amado" [a leading Turkish rabbi].
117 leaves. (6 leaves missing: title and introductions, last leaf of indices). 30cm. Fair-poor condition, moth-damages and fungi.
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