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IMMANUEL BEN JEKUTHIEL OF BENEVENTO. - Livyath Chen [on grammar and prosody]. FIRST EDITION. Title within woodcut architectural arch. Couple of marginal notations. Title page with signature of Yitzchak b. Yehudah Frankinsohn. ff. (8), 108. Two introductory leaves shorter, few light stains. Bound in Valmadonna-custom chestnut blind-tooled calf, titled in gilt on spine. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Mantua 39. Mantua: Jacob ben Naphtali Hakohen 1557 The author, a highly regarded Italian Kabbalist, helped facilitate the first printing of the Zohar in Mantua in 1558. A mystical element clearly influences the Livyath Chen, indeed passages from the Zohar are found therein. See I. Tishbi, Kovetz Perakim, Vol. I, pp. 148-153.