Sefer Bet Yaʻaḳov / ... Avraham ha-Kohen ... me-Lasḳ ba-Medinot Polonya...
ספר בית יעקב ... \ אברהם הכהן ... מלאסק במדינות פולוניא.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abraham ben Jehiel Michal, ha-Kohen, of Lask, -approximately 1800, author.

Contributor:

Nunes Ṿais, Yaʻaḳov, printer.

Meldola, Raphael, 1754-1828, printer.

Library at the Katz Center Special Collections (University of Pennsylvania)

Livorno Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Cabala.

Gematria.

Physical Description:

[6], 50 leaves : charts ; 22 cm (4to)

Manufacture:

Liṿorno : Ba-defus hameshubaḥ shel ha-shutafim ... Yaʻaḳov Nunes Ṿais nar.u., ṿeha-maśkil ... Refaʼel Meldolah nar.u., = Con Approvazione, [5]552 [that is, 1791 or 1792]

ליוורנו : בדפוס המשובח של השותפים... יעקב נוניס ואיס נר"ו, והמשכיל ... רפאל מילדולה נר"ו, שנת יתהללו כל י'ש'ר'י' ל'ב' לפ"ק

Notes:

Work on the Cabala, including the mystical meaning of the letter Alif and a cabalistic commentary on select portions at the end of the book of Genesis.

Ecomium from Tunisian rabbis (undersigned: Shelomoh Alfasi, Yitsḥaḳ Alḥayekh, Yosef Zarka, Shemuʼel Ha-kohen Yitsḥaḳi, Avraham Najar, ʻUziʼel Alḥayekh, Avraham Abuḳara, Eliyahu Ḥayim Borgel, Avraham Ṭayab, and Daniʼel Franḳo), and another from Livornese rabbis (undersigned: Daṿid Malʼakh, Avraham Yitsḥaḳ Castillo, and Yaʻaḳov ibn Nayam); approbations by Avraham Algazi of Jerusalem, Hirsch Janow of Fürth, and Joseph Meir Teomim of Frankfurt an der Oder (author of Sefer Peri megadim).

Woodcut headpiece; tailpieces. Two charts in the author's introduction.

Signatures: [pi]⁶ 1-11⁴ 12⁴ (-12, 4) 13².

Local Notes:

Libra Katz Rare copy purchased from Jacob Djmal, 2025; rebound (marbled boards, with white leather spine).

Cited in:

Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri, Livorno 318

Bodleian Library. Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, 4255 : 1

OCLC:

1586652919