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LOT 16:
Me'ametz Ko'ach – Copy of the Maggid of Horodna. Venice, [1588]. Second and Rare Edition.
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Me'ametz Ko'ach – Copy of the Maggid of Horodna. Venice, [1588]. Second and Rare Edition.
Sefer Me'ametz Ko'ach, twenty-eight Drushim by Rabbi Moshe Almosnini.
On verso of the title page, "אמר המתעסק במלאכת שמים ... אשר פורינץ" – recalling that Rabbi Yitzchak Gershon proofread the book.
At the beginning of the book, a foreword; at the end of the book, an afterword, both by the author's son Rabbi Shimon Almosnino.
On the title page of the book, an ownership notation handwritten by Rabbi Aryeh Leib Berstein, the Maggid of Horodna; on the leaf following the title page and on the last leaf, his stamps. Many handwritten notations on the last page.
The Gaon Rabbi Aryeh Leib Berstein – the Maggid of Horodna: served as Rav and Maggid Meisharim of Horodna (where the author of Yesod Veshoresh HaAvodah and the Gaon Rabbi Shimon Shkop lived and operated). In his old age, he served as Rav and Maggid Meisharim of immigrants from Grodno and Lodz in London.
'והרביץ תורה ותושיה בכל תפוצות ישראל' (the words of his son in his foreword to the book Olam Hatushiya, London 1937).
Venice, [1588]. Second edition. Juan De Gara Press.
236 leaves. 19 cm. Good condition. Tears and taping to the title page and two following leaves (slightly affecting the text on verso of the title page). Aging stains. Quality paper. New leather binding.
A Rare book of sermons, copy of the Maggid of Horodna.
