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Bidding Information
Lot #    19944
Auction End Date    2/19/2008 10:50:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Livyat Hen
Title (Hebrew)    לוית חן
Author    [The R. Isaac Hai Lombroso Copy]
City    Mantua
Publisher    Meir b. Ephraim of Padua & Jacob of Gazzolo
Publication Date    1557
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [8], 108 ff., 194:140 mm., light age and damp staining, old hands. A very good copy bound in modern boards.
          
Paragraph 1    The R. Isaac Hai Lombroso (d. 1752), rabbi of Tunis, copy with his inscription on title.
The Isaac Mehlman copy with his notes on end paper.

Includes [2] ff. historical poem lamenting the burning of the Talmud in Ancona 1554.
          
Detailed
Description		    Grammer and poetry by R. Immauuel b. Jekuthiel Benevento (died c. 1560), Italian grammarian and kabbalist. R. Benevento, who lived in Mantua, was the pupil of R. Moses Basola of Pesaro. He wrote Livyat Hen (Mantua, 1557) on Hebrew grammar and poetry and published Ma'arekhet ha-Elohut, the kabbalistic work of R. Perez b. Isaac Gerondi (of Barcelona), which he annotated with his own commentary (Mantua, 1558). He was also one of the publishers of the first printed edition of the Zohar (Mantua, 1558–60), and went to the Ottoman Empire in search of new Zohar manuscripts for this edition. R. Benevento was also involved in the dispute about printing the Zohar, justifying it in the introductions to his books. He died before the printing was completed.
          
Paragraph 2    חבור כולל בלשון צח וקצר כל דרכי לשון הקדש ... חברו והדפיסו והגיהו כמהר"ר עמנואל יצ"ו בכמ"ר יקותיאל ז"ל איש בניונטו ... שנת א'ש'ג'ב'ה'ו' כי ידע שמי

שני הדפים האחרונים: קינה על שריפת התלמוד באנקונה, בשנת שי"ד, שהמחבר היה עד לה, הפותחת: ערמת כל תלאותי. יגונותי ואנחותי. עיין: אוצר השירה והפיוט, ג, עמ' 291, מס' 949.

          
Reference
Description		    Steinschneider, Cat Bod, 541, no. 3492, 1055, no. 5266; J. Perles, Beitraege zur Geschichte der hebraeischen und aramaeischen Studien (1884), 220; G. Scholem, Bibliographia kabbalistica (1927), 166, 177; CD-EPI 0122726
        
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Listing Classification
Period
16th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Italy:    Checked
  
Subject
  
Kabbalah:    Checked
Other:    Poetry
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica