Auction 16 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Manuscript"Sur Me-Ra" on Card Games - Firenze 1701
Opening: $300
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium
Manuscript of the book"Sur Me-Ra". Copied in Italian Rashi handwriting by"disciple David son of Rabbi Shlomo Levi". Firenze, (1701).
Dialogue between two friends (Eldad and Meidad) on the illegitimacy of card games -"Two [friends] discuss the topic [card games], one shows the pros while the other shows the cons. From their discussion, it appears that there is nothing better for anyone than keep away from [those games]. This manuscript is the first book authored by Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh of Modena, who wrote it when he was 13 and printed it anonymously in Venice, 1595. This book was later reprinted in Prague, 1615. The present copy was copied by hand from the Prague print and includes the publisher's foreword as well as words by"the first publisher" Rabbi Avraham son of Rabbi Shlomo Chaim Haver-Tov.
17 Leaves, 16 cm. Good condition. Rebound.
Dialogue between two friends (Eldad and Meidad) on the illegitimacy of card games -"Two [friends] discuss the topic [card games], one shows the pros while the other shows the cons. From their discussion, it appears that there is nothing better for anyone than keep away from [those games]. This manuscript is the first book authored by Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh of Modena, who wrote it when he was 13 and printed it anonymously in Venice, 1595. This book was later reprinted in Prague, 1615. The present copy was copied by hand from the Prague print and includes the publisher's foreword as well as words by"the first publisher" Rabbi Avraham son of Rabbi Shlomo Chaim Haver-Tov.
17 Leaves, 16 cm. Good condition. Rebound.
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