Selections from The Valmadonna Trust Library: Highly Important Hebrew Printed Books
Nov 10, 2017
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LOT 105:
IMMANUEL BEN JEKUTIEL OF BENEVENTO
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Livyath Chen [grammar].
DELUXE COPY, PRINTED ENTIRELY ON BLUE PAPER. Title within architectural arch.
FIRST EDITION. ff. 108. Stained, lower margin of opening and closing several leaves repaired with some loss, marginal worming, stamps removed, faint owner’s inscriptions. Modern blind-tooled tan calf. 4to. Vinograd, Mantua 39; Mehlman 1239; Adams I-52.
Jacob ben Naphtali Hakohen , Mantua: 1557.
RARE, BIBLIOPHILIC EDITION. PRINTED ENTIRELY ON BLUE PAPER.
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. 148-43.
See Treasures of the Valmadonna Trust Library - Otzroth Ya’akov, Colored Paper no. 8.
