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Livyat Hen, R. Immauuel b. Jekuthiel Benevento, Mantua 1557
לוית חן - Only Edition
- Final Bid Price: $1,400.00 Reserve Price Not Met
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Details
- Lot Number 46467
- Title (English) Livyat Hen
- Title (Hebrew) לוית חן
- Note Only Edition
- Author R. Immauuel b. Jekuthiel Benevento
- City Mantua
- Publisher Meir b. Ephraim of Padua & Jacob of Gazzolo
- Publication Date 1557
- Estimated Price - Low 2,000
- Estimated Price - High 4,000
- Item # 1292567
- End Date
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Description
Physical Description
Only edition. [6], 108 ff., 200:145 mm., light age and damp staining, wide margins. A very good copy bound in contemporary sprinkled calf over boards, rubbed.
Detail 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 passed on before the printing was completed.
Hebrew Description
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
Reference
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-NLI 0122726