Bidspirit auction | ”Minchat Kohen” ”Ner Mitzvah”. Venice


”Minchat Kohen” ”Ner Mitzvah”. Venice 1598. Signature of Rabbi David Ibn Yichye. - Sefer Minchat Kohen, Ner Mitzvah. Homilies on Maimonides' Thirteen Principles of Faith, by Rabbi Shmuel Kohen Tzedek. Venice 1598. Only edition. Large composition with seventeen homilies regarding the Thirteen Principles of Faith. Poems at the start and finish. Two years later, the author composed a work on Genesis - a quasi-continuation of this work. This copy includes the poems that were printed at its end, on one side of the leaf. The author was an Aleppo sage born in 1558. He references works of the Arizal. Final page with an antique inscription & signature of Rabbi David Ben Yichye. 5-216 Leaves. Lacking title & following 3 leaves. 19.8 Cm.