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Bidding Information
Lot #    7803
Auction End Date    8/17/2004 1:24:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Leket ha-Pardes
Title (Hebrew)    לקט הפרדס
Author    [Kabbalah - Ms. - Unpublished] R. Elhanan of Brody
City    [Germany or Poland]
Publication Date    c. 1714
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    116 ff., 194:155 mm., ink on paper, neat Ashkenazic script in two columns of 25 lines each, several ff. of Kabbalistic diagrams and charts throughout text, dampstained affecting text, bound in contemporary leather boards, laid down on later leather, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Interpretation of the Pentateuch and related novellae following Ari z'l teachings by R. Elhanan of Brody. The work is known from two other ms. in Oxford's Bodleian Library, this copy is older and dates to the Author's lifetime and may indeed be in his hand. F. 56a contains a notation in English by Moritz Steinschneider as to the completeness of this copy.

Attached is a complete description of the work by the noted scholar, Yosef Avivi in Jerusalem.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
  
Kabbalah:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Other:    Book
  
Kind of Judaica