Auction 87 HEBREW & JUDAIC PRINTED BOOKS
By Kestenbaum & Company
Jan 16, 2020
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LOT 6:

(ALEPPO).
Sa’adiah Gaon. Tirgum Asereth HaDibroth LeLashon Arabi
[translation and poetic commentary ...

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(ALEPPO).
Sa’adiah Gaon. Tirgum Asereth HaDibroth LeLashon Arabi



[translation and poetic commentary to the Ten Commandments, with Arabic piyut “De’ah al Tzultan,” plus short biography of Sa’adiah]. ff. 8. [This edition not listed in Yaari, Aleppo - see below]. Aleppo, Y. Dayan, 1912. * With: Vidui HaGadol [Great Confession recited in Aleppo during the ten Days of Repentance]. With Reshuth for Baruch She’amar and piyut for Yom Kipurim. ff. 6. [Yaari, Aleppo 60]. Aleppo, Ezra Chaim of Damascus [Imprimiere Al-Kamal Alep.] 1928. Together, two works in Judeo-Arabic.
Light wear. Original wrappers. 8vo.
Aleppo: v.d
The first work Tirgum Asereth Hadibroth by Saadiah Gaon was very popular and published a number of times by different printers in Aleppo. See Yaari, Aleppo no. 36 where he lists another 1912 edition printed by Ezra Chaim of Damascus, but with only 6 leaves and without the piyut De’ah al Tzultan.
The first work Tirgum Asereth Hadibroth by Saadiah Gaon was very popular and published a number of times by different printers in Aleppo. See Yaari, Aleppo no. 36 where he lists another 1912 edition printed by Ezra Chaim of Damascus, but with only 6 leaves and without the piyut De’ah al Tzultan.

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