Auction 54

Rare and with yichus: Admat Kodesh—first edition, Istanbul 1742.

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Sefer Admat Kodesh, Shut on the four sections of the Shulchan Aruch by Rabbi Moshe Mizrahi ben Yosef. First edition, Istanbul 1742. [2], 158, [5] leaves. Catalogued in the National Library’s Rare Books section.

Approbations from Jerusalem rabbis and geonim of Istanbul. Preface from the author himself and a long additional introduction by the author’s brother, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Mizrahi. Rear binding is detached, leather spine is defective, lone defects, lone bits of tape, stains, overall good condition.

The title page has Mizrahi signatures, one of them has the name “Chaim Yaakov” and a cut-off family name. Note: “the young Yehuda Danon…Mishi’ Ater [Yeshivat Ateret Rosheinu], Maran HaChabi”p.” The latter is a nickname for Rabbi Chaim Palagi.