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(ALEPPO). Sha’arei Kedushah [Kabbalah]. (as originally issued): Sepher Eilim...

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(ALEPPO).
Sha’arei Kedushah [Kabbalah]. (as originally issued): Sepher Eilim Letrufah [letters of moral instruction by Moses Nachmanides and ].

ff. (4), 48, 8. Modern calf. 12mo. Yaari, Aleppo 1 and 2.
Aleppo: Elijah Hai b. Abraham Sasson 1866

The first two Hebrew books printed in this ancient Jewish community of Northern Syria. Sasson was sent by his father to Italy to learn the art of printing. The rabbinic type he uses here is in fact very similar to that used by the Livornese Hebrew presses.


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[ translate ]

(ALEPPO).
Sha’arei Kedushah [Kabbalah]. (as originally issued): Sepher Eilim Letrufah [letters of moral instruction by Moses Nachmanides and ].

ff. (4), 48, 8. Modern calf. 12mo. Yaari, Aleppo 1 and 2.
Aleppo: Elijah Hai b. Abraham Sasson 1866

The first two Hebrew books printed in this ancient Jewish community of Northern Syria. Sasson was sent by his father to Italy to learn the art of printing. The rabbinic type he uses here is in fact very similar to that used by the Livornese Hebrew presses.

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