Auction 96 FINE JUDAICA: PRINTED BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, RABBINIC LETTERS, CEREMONIAL & GRAPHIC ART
By Kestenbaum & Company
Feb 9, 2022
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LOT 277:

IBN ABI ZIMRA, DAVID BEN SOLOMON
(RaDBa’Z). Magen David ...

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IBN ABI ZIMRA, DAVID BEN SOLOMON
(RaDBa’Z). Magen David [Kabbalistic commentary to the Hebrew alphabet].



FIRST EDITION.
ff. [4], 52. Marginal wear. Modern calf. 4to. Vinograd, Amsterdam 989.
Amsterdam: Asher Anschel and Partners 1713


Published from a manuscript owned by Chief Rabbi David Oppenheim of Prague. Born in Spain in 1479, the RaDBa”Z left before the Expulsion and settled for a while in Fez, from where he migrated to Egypt. He became the official head of Egyptian Jewry, serving as Dayan and principal of the Yeshivah in Cairo. After reaching old age he journeyed to Jerusalem where he died at the age of one hundred and ten.