Bidspirit auction | TRANI, MOSES DI Beith Elo-him

TRANI, MOSES DI Beith Elo-him [ethical philosophy with a section on prayer]. FIRST EDITION. Includes commentary to Perek Shirah. Title within architectural arch. Signature of SHMUEL TREVES on title, with marginalia. ff. 120, (6), 10. Wormed and stained in places. 17th-century vellum, gutter split. Folio. Vinograd, Venice 610. Venice, Giovanni di Gara, 1576.     Of Spanish origin the author was born in Salonika. In young adulthood he proceeded to Safed where he studied under R. Ya’akov Berab who gave him rabbinic ordination amidst the effort to re-introduce Semichah.