Abridgment of Derekh Emunah, [18th-19th century]

This volume contains an abridgement of Derekh Emunah, a philosophical treatise by Abraham ben Shem Tov Bibago (Spain, late fifteenth century). This anonymous abridgement, arranged in thirteen chapters, is an autograph copy.

Sotheby’s is grateful to Menahem Schmelzer z”l and Benjamin Richler for cataloguing this manuscript.

Provenance

Solomon Halberstam (shelf no. 3)

Physical Description

46 leaves on paper, 8 ½ x 6 ¼ inches; 216 x 159 mm, written in Ashkenazic cursive script in black ink, early foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil; fols.1-7 guarded, stubs of 4 leaves between fols. 31-32. Black library buckram.

Literature

Hirschfeld (ms. no. 288)