Auction 14 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Sha’ar Ruach Ha-Kodesh / Em Le-Masorot – Dedications
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Sold for: $188
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1. Sha’ar Ruach Ha-Kodesh, by Rabbi Chaim Vital with the commentary of Rabbi Yosef Sadvon. Mentions and glosses by the publisher Rabbi Yitzchak Calamaro. Jerusalem [1874]. Second edition. [Cut] handwritten dedication on the title page by the Rabbi publisher “The young Yitzchak Calamar[o]”. S. Halevi 227. [2], 83 leaves. 28 cm. Good condition. Moth damage. Stains. Ownership ink stamps from Tripoli.
2. Em Le-Masorot, on the traditions of writing Torah scrolls. Rabbi Aryeh Leib Harif. Jerusalem (1876). Beck print.
Printed by his grandson Rabbi Shneur Zalman son of Rabbi Menachem Mendel [Mendelovich], who published it with his own book “Zichron Yerushalayim”. The present copy only has the first part of the “Em Le-Masorot”. Fine dedication addressed to “the smart, honorable and generous nobleman, Moshe Atzitz…”. The dedication is written in Sephardic calligraphy and has a Sephardic styled ink stamp “Shneur Zalman son of Rabbi Menachem”. S. Halevi 266. [16] leaves, 20.5 cm. Good condition. Light moth marks.
2. Em Le-Masorot, on the traditions of writing Torah scrolls. Rabbi Aryeh Leib Harif. Jerusalem (1876). Beck print.
Printed by his grandson Rabbi Shneur Zalman son of Rabbi Menachem Mendel [Mendelovich], who published it with his own book “Zichron Yerushalayim”. The present copy only has the first part of the “Em Le-Masorot”. Fine dedication addressed to “the smart, honorable and generous nobleman, Moshe Atzitz…”. The dedication is written in Sephardic calligraphy and has a Sephardic styled ink stamp “Shneur Zalman son of Rabbi Menachem”. S. Halevi 266. [16] leaves, 20.5 cm. Good condition. Light moth marks.
Books printed in Jerusalem, books about Eretz Israel
Books printed in Jerusalem, books about Eretz Israel