Auction of Judaica focusing on printed books and handwritten documents and other manuscripts. Divided into categories as follows:
Religious Hebrew books take up the first third of the auction. Highlights are: The first edition of two parts of the Shulchan Aruch (Venice, 1565, Lots 37 and 38) a large fragment of the Tanach Constantinople, 1522 (lot 5); and several Zhitomir / Slavita imprints.
Also appearing are Rabbinic manuscripts and letters from such luminaries as Yehuda Aszod (lot 57); Avraham Azulai (lot 73); Reuven ibn Yahya (lot 78); Moshe Provencal (lot 87); Ya’akov Toledano (lot 90), etc.
The personal silver Kiddush cup of the Ribnitzer Rebbe (lot 56) will of course attract much attention.
The sale highlight is lot 94: An exceptional illuminated manuscript that has never before appeared at public auction. A Passover Hagadah created by the celebrated artistic-scribe Eliezer Sussman Mezeritsch, Frankfurt, 1833.
The next section (lots 108-178) represents Judaica stemming from across the globe, including Australia, Brazil, China, the German-speaking lands, Gibraltar, Poland, Russia, etc. Also included is much on Holy Land travel, the Land of Israel and Zionism.
The section of Antisemitica / Holocaust includes an exceptional illuminated manuscript (lot 208) devoted to the Polish Jews of Częstochowa. Also of importance is a recently uncovered diary from 1945 of a young Hungarian Jewess who survived Auschwitz (lot 205); and a large archive of personal documents of a German-Jewish doctor who spent the years 1939-47 in Shanghai.
General Judaica (lots 209-245) includes the first edition of Bartolocci’s first ever bibliography of Hebrew books (Rome, 1675, lot 209); a unique copy of the Edgardo Mortara’s autobiography, personally signed by him (lot 226); and the first edition of one of the rarest works of Spanish-Jewish literature, Moses Almosnino’s Extremos y Grandezas de Constantinopla (Madrid, 1638, lot 231).
The penultimate section of the sale (lot 241-267) are illustrated books and graphic art including several fine books from the magnificent hand of Arthur Szyk, including two original drawings by him (lots 258, 259).
The final section of the sale are fine books that stem from the library of the late Charles Wuorinen, being English & Continental Early Printed Books (lots 268-291).
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LOT 45:
MENACHEN BEN MOSHE HABAVLI. Ta’amei Mitzvoth [on the ...
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MENACHEN BEN MOSHE HABAVLI.
Ta’amei Mitzvoth [on the categories and reasons for the precepts].
FIRST EDITION.
ff. (52). Closely shaved with some marginal loss supplied in facsimile, stained and remargined. Modern calf-backed marbled boards. Sm. 4to.
Vinograd, Lublin 16; Mehlman 893.
Lublin, Eliezer ben Yitzchak, 1571.
The author served as a Dayan in Trikala, Greece, before migrating to Safed in 1527, from where he renewed the Jewish settlement of Hebron, settling there in 1546.
In the introduction to the present work, the author states that all royalties received will be put toward rebuilding the ruins of Hebron so that its inhabitants may “rest from the robbers and plunderers of the night, and in the merit of the Patriarchs (buried in Hebron) those who study, day and night, will not be disturbed.”
The Chassidic Masters were very fond of this work, later editions contain commentaries by Tzvi of Rimenov and others. Some editions have been confused by publishers with a work bearing the same title by Menachem Recanti.
For details concerning the author’s origins see M. Benayahu, From Where Did R. Menachem Ha’Bavli Come to Hebron? in: Kiryath Sepher vol. 29 (1953-54), pp. 174-94; E. Roth, in Kiryath Sepher vol. 31 (1955-56), p. 399 and Benayahu’s reply pp. 399-400. See also H. Z. Dimitrovsky, in Sefunoth vol. 7 (1963) p. 67.
