Auction 63
Lot 24:
Three sections of a set of the Shulchan Aruch with the Rema and for the first time, with the Likutei Gur Aryeh Halevi by Rabbi Gur Aryeh ben Mose Hoshata Finzi – the press of Yitzchak Yareh and Yaakov Chaver Tov – Mantova, 1722-1723.
Three sections in two volumes:
Yoreh Deah: 1722. [1], 148-288 leaves.
Even HaEzer: 1723. 88 leaves.
Choshen Mishpat: 1723. [1], 90-268, [1] leaves.
In the National Library, the book appears in the Rare Book Collection. Fine printing on healthy paper with wide margins. The title page of Even HaEzer is detached. Some detached leaves. Moth damage. Stains. Worn bindings: one of them, leather-covered wood, detached. The second is stable with a leather spine. Fair-good overall condition.
Inside the copies, handwritten corrections and notations in a foreign language – see pictures. On the section of Yoreh Deah, a notation of the flyleaf: "אבא מהורדנא" and trimmed Sephardic on the title page. In one place, a foreign notation and above it in Hebrew: "יעקב הלוי". An illustration of a man in modern attire (ancient).
Rabbi Abba of Horodna (1802-1888) a disciple and friend of Rabbeinu Nachumkeh of Horodna. Immigrated to the Holy land and was one of the heads of Kollel Horodna of Jerusalem. One of the Kabbalists of the Kehal Chassidim Yeshiva (eventually, the Beit El yeshiva of Kabbalists). One of the writers of the glosses on Sefer Etz Chaim by Rabbi Chaim Vital printed at the Bak printery, Jerusalem 1866, there he is signed: אבא מהוראדנא המכונה אב"ן ח"ן. (Abba of Horodna known as Even Chen).
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