ALSHEICH, MOSHE. Group of five works, bound in five...

ALSHEICH, MOSHE.
Group of five works, bound in five volumes, uniformly bound and housed in fitted box:

* Devarim Tovim [commentary to Koheleth. ff. 35 (i.e. 41), (1). Vinograd, Venice 922. * Devarim Nechumim [commentary to Eichah]. ff. 38, (1). Vinograd, Venice 923. * Masath Moshe [commentary to Esther]. ff. 86. With woodcut illustrations on f. 83v.Vinograd, Venice 931. * Einei Moshe [commentary to Ruth]. ff. 46, (1). Vinograd, Venice 934. * Shoshanath Ha’Amakim [commentary to Song of Songs]. ff. 60. Vinograd, Venice 1024. FIRST EDITION of all (second edition of last one).
Variously stained in places, few marginal repairs. Calf-backed marbled boards. 8vo.
Venice: Giovanni di Gara 1601 and 1606 (last one)

A native of Adrianople, Turkey, R. Moshe Alsheich (1508-93) settled in Safed, where he was was ordained by R. Yoseph Karo (upon whom had been conferred the reintroduced Semicha of R. Jacob Berab). Part of the cabal of scholars during Safed’s golden age, R. Moshe Alsheich was a teacher of R. Chaim Vital. Alsheich is one of the few rabbis to be universally known as ‘Hakadosh’ - The Holy. His homiletical Biblical commentary is celebrated as a fundamental classic.