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Bidding Information
Lot #    4796
Auction End Date    6/10/2003 2:02:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Ho'il Moshe; Vayakheil Moshe
Title (Hebrew)    הואיל משה; ויקהל משה
Author    [Fine Renaissance Binding] R. Moshe Alfalas
City    Venice
Publisher    Daniel Zanetti
Publication Date    1597
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   139, [8, 1 blank]; 201, [10] f., quarto, 197:139 mm., light age staining, wide margins, old hand on front endpiece.

Two works bound in a decorative 16th century Renaissance binding. Red moroccow, tooled in blind and gild, spine in compartments, lightly rubbed on extremities. Fold-out flap with title for horizontal identification, imprinted Trevis - a Jewish Renaissance Library!

          
Paragraph 1    From the Treves library, a ramified family which produced scores of scholars, rabbis, and communal workers. It is usually assumed that the family's origins were in Troyes, France, Rashi's birthplace, from where it spread throughout Italy and Germany. Others hold that it came from Treviso near Venice, Italy, in the 14th century, while a third opinion is that it originated in Trier (Germany), called TrIves in French. In France members of the family were called Triverzans and in Germany, Drifzan. Branches of the family spread through the different countries of Europe from the 14th to the 20th centuries.
          
Detailed
Description
   Homiletics by a Moroccan born (late 16th century), rabbi and preacher who lived in Tetuan, Spanish Morocco. Alfalas, in common with R. Judah Loew of Prague, employed philosophical terms in his preaching, without retaining their accepted meaning. Many of his sermons were delivered in Salonika, and he probably lived there some time. His printed works are: Ho'il Moshe (1597), 13 chapters of homiletic treatment of the midrashic sayings that refer to the meaning of the Torah and the relationship between Israel and the Torah; Ba Gad (printed together with the above), which contains seven chapters of homilies explaining the significance of the milah ("circumcision"); Va-Yakhel Moshe (1597), 25 homilies which he had preached in Venice, Salonika, Tetuan and other towns, including some homilies written by his students under his supervision. All three books include an index of contents and sources, compiled by Samuel ibn Dysoss.
          
Paragraph 2    והם כה דרושים נחמדים כדמות סוג למינים אשר המציא ... ר' משה אלפלס נר"ו הוגה במתון ע"י הח"ר שמואל ן' דייסוס ... דף כב, א-לא, א: הדרוש השלישי ... למדתי לתלמידי החשוב רבי יעקב בן ... ר' יחיא הכהן נר"ו ודרש אותו בטיטואן. דף לא, ב- מה, א: הדרוש הרביעי ... למדתי לתלמידי החשוב רבי אברהם קרודו יצ"ו ודרש אותו בטיטואן.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
16th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Italy:    Checked
  
Subject
Homiletics:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Bindings:    Checked
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Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica