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Bidding Information
Lot #    7084
Auction End Date    3/30/2004 3:42:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Otiyyot de-Rabbi Akiva (Alphabet of Rabbi Akiva)
Title (Hebrew)    אותיות של רבי עקיבה
Author    [Kabbalah - First Ed.] Anonymous
City    Constantinople
Publication Date    c. 1515
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   First edition. [12] ff., 193:136 mm., wide margins, minor worming on inner margins, repaired. A near fine copy of an extremely rare and important work bound in modern full leather boards.
          
Detailed
Description
   Kabbalistic treatise that considers, letter by letter, the cosmological and eschatological properties of the Hebrew alphabet, and what it reveals about the Al-mighty. The work is heavily referenced in kabbalah literature and attributed to the sage Rabbi Akiva.
          
Paragraph 2    מדרש בטעמי אותיות הא"ב, מיוחס לרבי עקיבא.
          
Reference
Description
   CD-EPI 0108484; Yaari, Constantinople 66
        
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Listing Classification
Period
16th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Greece-Turkey:    Checked
  
Subject
  
Kabbalah:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica