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Bidding Information
Lot #    24260
Auction End Date    8/11/2009 10:02:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Peirush Megillat Esther
Title (Hebrew)    פירוש מגלת אסתר
Author    [First Ed. - Kabbalah] R. Elisha Gallico
City    Venice
Publisher    Elviso Bragadin
Publication Date    1583
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. 62 ff., quarto, 189:132 mm., wide margins, old stamps on fly and title, light age and damp staining. A very good copy bound in modern full leather over boards, tooled in blind.
          
Detailed
Description		    Kabbalistic commentary to the Scroll of Esther by R. Elisha b. Gabriel Gallico (c. 1583), talmudic scholar and kabbalist in Safed. R. Gallico was a pupil of R. Joseph Caro and a member of his bet din. After the death of R. Joseph Caro he was a member of R. Moses Trani's bet din. R. Elisha was the teacher of R. Samuel Uceda and other prominent scholars. His signature appears - with the other scholars of Safed - on several responsa in R. Caro's Avkat Rokhel and other period responsa. The collection of R. Elisha's responsa has been lost; however several of them are quoted both in the work Keneset ha-Gedolah and in the responsa, Ba'ei Hayyei by R. Hayyim Benvenisti. R. Elisha wrote homiletic and kabbalistic commentaries on all the five scrolls. Toward the end of his life he headed a yeshiva in Safed.
          
Paragraph 2    דף ב-ד: הקדמה מאת ר' גרשון ב"ר שמחה לבית קיצגין, תלמיד המחבר, שהביא את הספר לדפוס.
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0123261; L. Zunz, in: Kerem Hemed, 5 (1841), 141; Michael, Or, no. 474; D. Tamar, in: Sefunot, 7 (1963), 173; idem, in: KS, 33 (1958), 378; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
16th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Italy:    Checked
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
  
Kabbalah:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica