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Auction archive: Lot number 69

LONZANO, Menahem ben Judah (1550-c. 1624). Omer Man (commentary on the Idra Zuta and Sifra di-Tseni'uta from the Zohar). MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER

Auction 23.06.1999
23 Jun 1999
Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$2,760
Auction archive: Lot number 69

LONZANO, Menahem ben Judah (1550-c. 1624). Omer Man (commentary on the Idra Zuta and Sifra di-Tseni'uta from the Zohar). MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER

Auction 23.06.1999
23 Jun 1999
Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$2,760
Beschreibung:

LONZANO, Menahem ben Judah (1550-c. 1624). Omer Man (commentary on the Idra Zuta and Sifra di-Tseni'uta from the Zohar). MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER [Central or Eastern Europe, early 18th century] 4 o (200 x 165 mm). [2 blank] + 121 + [5 blank] leaves. Brown ink. Ashkenazic semi-cursive script. (Some browning and dampstaining, otherwise good condition.) Modern blind and gold-tooled brown morocco, edges gauffred and gilt, two modern paper flyleaves at back and front. CONTENTS: Omer man was published in Vilna 1883. On fols. 105r-119v of the present manuscript there is a copy of Gedaliah Halevi's Derushei ha-Melakhim she-Metu on transmigration of souls (published in Jacob Zemah's Kol be-Ramah , Korets 1785; Vinograd, Thesaurus , p. 600, no. 58), followed by a similar work by Isaac Luria and other excerpts on the same subject. On fol. 121r a later hand added Sod Etsba Elokim by Samson Ostropolier (martyred in 1648). REFERENCES: Neubauer, no. 114, p. 33; Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, Jerusalem, F 4778.

Auction archive: Lot number 69
Auction:
Datum:
23 Jun 1999
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

LONZANO, Menahem ben Judah (1550-c. 1624). Omer Man (commentary on the Idra Zuta and Sifra di-Tseni'uta from the Zohar). MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER [Central or Eastern Europe, early 18th century] 4 o (200 x 165 mm). [2 blank] + 121 + [5 blank] leaves. Brown ink. Ashkenazic semi-cursive script. (Some browning and dampstaining, otherwise good condition.) Modern blind and gold-tooled brown morocco, edges gauffred and gilt, two modern paper flyleaves at back and front. CONTENTS: Omer man was published in Vilna 1883. On fols. 105r-119v of the present manuscript there is a copy of Gedaliah Halevi's Derushei ha-Melakhim she-Metu on transmigration of souls (published in Jacob Zemah's Kol be-Ramah , Korets 1785; Vinograd, Thesaurus , p. 600, no. 58), followed by a similar work by Isaac Luria and other excerpts on the same subject. On fol. 121r a later hand added Sod Etsba Elokim by Samson Ostropolier (martyred in 1648). REFERENCES: Neubauer, no. 114, p. 33; Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, Jerusalem, F 4778.

Auction archive: Lot number 69
Auction:
Datum:
23 Jun 1999
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
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