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KALATZ, YEHUDAH. (Zeh HaSepher Hamepho’ar…) Sepher HaMussar [ethics]. FIRST EDITION. Marginalia. Occasional stains, blank margin of one leaf with small tear. 4to. Vinograd, Constantinople 159. Constantinople, Eliezer b. Gershom Soncino, 1536-37. An ethical work with both rationalistic and Kabbalistic expositions. Contains chapters concerning social and commercial Halacha. The author was a mystic and moralist who resided in Tlemcen, Algeria at the turn of the 15th-century. Concerning the Kalatz Family, see S. Z. Havlin, LeToldoth Mishpachath Al-Calatz, in Kiryat Sepher, Vol. 49, (1974) pp. 643-56.