Bidspirit auction | IMMANUEL BEN YEKUTHIEL OF BENEVENTO.

IMMANUEL BEN YEKUTHIEL OF BENEVENTO. Livyath Chen [on grammar and prosody]. FIRST EDITION. Title within woodcut architectural arch. The Mehlman copy. ff. (8), 108. Lightly stained, title rehinged. Recent boards. 4to. Vinograd, Mantua 39. Mantua, Jacob ben Naphtali Hakohen, 1557. A mystical element clearly influences the Livyath Chen and passages from the Zohar are included. The author, a well respected Italian Kabbalist, helped facilitate the first printing of the Zohar in Mantua in 1558 (see Lot 82). See I. Tishbi, Kovetz Perakim, Vol. I, pp. 148-153.