Lot : 28

Kesser Torah.
First Edition.
Constantinople, 1536
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Start price: $6,000

Est. Price: $8,000 - $12,000

Kesser Torah.
First Edition.
Constantinople, 1536
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Halachos of the 613 mitzvos and 7 mitzvos d’Rabbanan in poetic form by Rabbi Dovid Vital.

This sefer is based on a lengthy poem which the author printed in the beginning of his sefer. The poem comprises 620 words (the sum of 613 mitzvos d’Oraysa and 7 mitzvos d’Rabbanan), and the remainder of the sefer is a commentary on the 613 mitzvos.

The acrostic of the poem is the words of the Ten Commandments.

This sefer also contains the poem written about the 70 treifos of the lung (kashrus of meat). This poem became famous and was reprinted in many sefarim. (One example is the Seder Meah Brachos, featured in this Catalog lot #2). It was likewise copied into numerous manuscripts.

Prior to the poem on the treifos (Leaf 92b), there is a printed drawing of the shape of the lung.

Three illustrations in the shapes of the palm of the hand (Leaf 14b) are printed prior to the poem regarding calculating the calendar.

Rabbi Dovid Vital was a 15th century Rabbi, posek, lecturer and poet. He married the daughter of Rabbi Dovid Hakohein of Corfu, author of Shu”t HaRadach. In his youth, he was expelled from Spain, and from there he wandered to Turkey and later to Patras, Greece. Rabbi Dovid Vital corresponded extensively with the great Torah luminaries in his generation, among them Maharam of Padua who wrote to him , “Your essays reached my hands…and I rejoiced in them as with great wealth, and I blessed God with the blessing on seeing the wise, and that Avraham Avinu has a son like you” (Shu”t Maharam Padua Ch. 31).

Constantinople, 1536. Eliezer ben Gershom Soncino Press. First edition. Page Count: [128] leaves. Page Size: 21 cm. Additional Information: Title page enhanced with border and crown, alluding to the title of the sefer. Condition: Good with light restorations to the first pages.

Bibliography: Yaari, Constantinople #120.

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