Auction 137 Summer sale Early Prints, Chassidut, Belongings of Tzaddikim, Amulets, Segula Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical letters, Chabad.
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Jul 14, 2022
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Early Prints, Chassidut, Belongings of Tzaddikim, Amulets, Segula Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical letters, Chabad. 
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LOT 52:

Knesset Yechezkel by the Av Beit Din of Hamburg. Altona, 1732. Handwritten Supplementation of the Omissions

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Knesset Yechezkel by the Av Beit Din of Hamburg. Altona, 1732. Handwritten Supplementation of the Omissions


Sefer Knesset Yechezkel - Responsa by the gaon Rabbi Yechezkel Katzelelbogen, av beit din of Ah"u (Altona, Hamburg and Wandsbek). Altona, 1732. First edition in the author's lifetime.


Several original supplements in a rabbinic script along the leaves of the book: Page 129a - indices - a short description is added that was omitted in print; page 100b has two handwritten supplements of text in the margins of the responsa with a short description of the contents that were omitted in print; several other places have omissions from the print in several of the questions (questions 45, 72, 73); and next to question 75 is a small handwritten revision.


Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of the gaon Rabbi Yechezkel Katzelelbogen.


130 leaf. 34 cm.

Fine condition. Small worming perforations in the first leaves. Usage and aging stains. The first group of leaves is detached. Old binding, partially detached.