Menorath HaMa'or [“The Candelabrum of Light”: Ethical Treatise]

Estimate: $700–$900
Hammer price: $750

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

ABOAB, ISAAC

printer

Giovanni dei Farri - Cornelio Adelkind

Place

Venice

Publication

1544

Description

Second Edition, with scarce final leaf. On title, signature of former owner: "Shimon Hakohen, Frankfurt"

references

Vinograd, Venice 224; Haberman, Adelkind 1

summary

First printed in Constantinople in 1514, Menorath haMaor has remained throughout the centuries an immensely popular work of religious edification. The book is of immense value to scholars as well, preserving as it does Spanish-North African (as opposed to Franco-German) recensions of the agadoth of the Talmud. See EJ, Vol. II, cols. 90-91

ff.132. Trimmed and stained. Modern calf. Folio

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