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ELIJAH BEN SOLOMON ABRAHAM HA-KOHEN OF SMYRNA. Shevet Musar, in Hebrew with a Yiddish translation [a homiletic work on ethics].
Amsterdam: Naphtali Hirts Levi ben Alexander Süsskind, 1732.
202 leaves. Printed in Hebrew with Yiddish translation (by an anonymous translator); title within simple typographical border.
4to, 204 x 170 mm. (8 x 6¾ in.), contemporary vellum over boards, some large chips, darkened; hinges cracked, short tear on 34(4) (crossing a few lines of text), some margins frayed along edges, soiled and stained.
Vinograd, Amsterdam 1400; Steinschneider 7563; Cowley 182; Roest 343; not in Zedner, Van Straalen and its supplements (no copy in the British Library).
The author, one of the outstanding preachers of his time, was a prolific writer: about 30 of his works are extant. Shevet Musar (first printed in Constantinople in 1712) is the best known of his works and one of the most popular Hebrew works in the fields of ethics and homiletics. This work consists of 52 chapters corresponding to the weeks of the year and to the numerical value of his Hebrew name, "Eliyahu." Another edition, with the Hebrew text only, was printed by the same printer in the same year.
Amsterdam: Naphtali Hirts Levi ben Alexander Süsskind, 1732.
202 leaves. Printed in Hebrew with Yiddish translation (by an anonymous translator); title within simple typographical border.
4to, 204 x 170 mm. (8 x 6¾ in.), contemporary vellum over boards, some large chips, darkened; hinges cracked, short tear on 34(4) (crossing a few lines of text), some margins frayed along edges, soiled and stained.
Vinograd, Amsterdam 1400; Steinschneider 7563; Cowley 182; Roest 343; not in Zedner, Van Straalen and its supplements (no copy in the British Library).
The author, one of the outstanding preachers of his time, was a prolific writer: about 30 of his works are extant. Shevet Musar (first printed in Constantinople in 1712) is the best known of his works and one of the most popular Hebrew works in the fields of ethics and homiletics. This work consists of 52 chapters corresponding to the weeks of the year and to the numerical value of his Hebrew name, "Eliyahu." Another edition, with the Hebrew text only, was printed by the same printer in the same year.