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Imrei No'ash and Other Texts, [Italy, 18th century]

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December 18, 04:51 PM GMT

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1,800 - 2,500 USD

Lot Details

Description

Fols. 1r-1v: Masoretic accents for reading Psalms.


Fols. 5r-83v: Imrei No'ash, an unpublished dictionary of rhymes by Solomon ben Meshullam da Piera (Spain ca. 1342–ca.1418). Extant in several other manuscripts.


Fol. 84r-v: A kabbalistic prayer for “redemption of the soul” (pidyon nefesh) attributed to Moses ben Nahman (Nahmanides). Printed in Amtahat Binyamin (Wilhermsdorf, 1716).


Fols. 89r-96v: Selections from Yad Haruzim, a dictionary of rhymes by Gershom ben Moses Hefez (Gentili) who lived at the end of the seventeenth century in Trieste and Venice. Copied from one of the Venice editions (1700 or 1743). 


Fol. 97: A short piece in prose followed by a poem.


Sotheby’s is grateful to Menahem Schmelzer z”l and Benjamin Richler for cataloguing this manuscript.


Provenance

Solomon Halberstam (shelf no. 308)


Physical Description

97 leaves on paper (fols. 2-4, 85-88 blank), 10 x 7 ½ inches; 255 x 191 mm, written in Italian semi-cursive script; very faint dampstaining, a few small stains, library stamp on first leaf. Library buckram.


Literature

Hirschfeld (ms. no. 495)

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