Chavatzeleth Hasharon [commentary to Book of Daniel, with text]

Estimate

$7,000–$9,000

Hammer price

$13,000

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

author

ALSHEICH, MOSES.

printer

n.p

Place

Safed/Constantinople?

Publication

1563

Description

FIRST EDITION. A wide-margined copy

references

Vinograd, Const. 223; Yaari, Const. 165; Adams B-1600; JNUL copy incomplete

summary

AN IMPORTANT AND UNCOMMON WORK, IN UNUSUALLY FINE CONDITION. Steinschneider (Cat. Bodl. no.180) lists the book as printed in Safed. Wiener (no.3727), Roest (p.221) and Zedner (p.147) all follow a similar logic. Thus assuming it to be the earliest Safed imprint and indeed the earliest Hebrew book printed in Asia. Yaari posits it is a Constantinople imprint from the press of Solomon ben Isaac Yaavetz. The Chavatzeleth Hasharon was the first book published by Moses Alsheich, a significant personality among the illustrious denizens of 16th-century Safed, indeed he is one of the few outstanding scholars to have the appendage “Hakadosh” (The Holy) universally cited after his name. (Others are the Shaloh and the Ohr Hachaim)

ff. (116). Light stains in places, manuscript inscriptions on front-free endpaper, title and f.2, signed by censor on verso of final leaf. Modern cloth, retaining earlier blind-tooled morocco covers. Sm. 4to

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