Important Judaica

Important Judaica

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Ta'alumot Hokhmah, Shabbetai ben Daniel Raphael, [Kurdistan?, 18th century]

Auction Closed

December 18, 04:51 PM GMT

Estimate

3,500 - 5,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ta’alumot Hokhmah, compiled by Shabbetai ben Daniel Raphael, is a collection of practical kabbalah and folk remedies. This manuscript may have been copied from the printed edition (Venice, ca. 1667), possibly in Kurdistan or the immediate area. The end of the text is missing.


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


Physical Description

17 leaves on paper, 8 ½ x 6 ¼ inches; 212 x 162 mm, ruled in hardpoint, written in Oriental script in black ink, catchwords, modern foliation in pencil; inner margins reinforced, stains in the outer margins. Library buckram.


Literature

Hirschfeld (ms. no. 344); on the author’s role in the Sabbatean movement, see G. Scholem, Sabbatai Sevi (Princeton, 1973), pp.  781-792

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