Auction 57

Sefer Mekor Chaim by Rabbi Shmuel Tzartza. Only edition, Mantua 1559. Copy with yichus.

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Sefer Mekor Chaim, a work on the Torah and the commentary of the ibn Ezra, by Rabbi Shmuel Tzartza, nicknamed Rabbi Shmuel ibn Sana. Only edition, printed by Meir ben Ephraim of Padua and Yaakov ben Naftali HaKohen of Gazzolo in Mantua. See: Stefanski Sifrei Yesod 2. Originally 130 leaves. This copy is missing the title page and the following leaf and page 91. The National Library is in the rare collection.

without binding.The book’s leaves are completely separate, no remains of binding. Tears in the margins of some leaves, a number of times affecting text. Worming holes, stains and various defects. Overall poor to fair condition.


The blank binding leaf has a stamp from Rabbi Maimon of Yara when he resided in Debdou in Morocco. Handwritten signature: “Mordechai Abudraham”.