Auction 102 Part 2
Rare and Important Items
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LOT 129:
Printed Aleph-Bet Chart – Pisa, 1799 – Only Extant Copy
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Printed Aleph-Bet Chart – Pisa, 1799 – Only Extant Copy
Printed Aleph-Bet chart, with abridged Birkat HaMazon and other blessings, reading of Shema and other prayer texts. Pisa: Fua, 1799. Hebrew, with some Ladino.
Chart for teaching children to read. Upper part of leaf has the letters of the Hebrew alphabet with various vowels. On the right side of the leaf appear the Shema, Kedushah, Asher Yatzar and blessings on tzitzit and tefillin, and on the left side appear Birchot HaNehenin, Bore Nefashot and an abridged Birkat HaMazon. Additionally, there appear several psalms, including Viyehi Noam, the Hashkivenu blessing and the verses HaMalach HaGoel, Torah Tzivah Lanu Moshe and "HaNa'ar HaKaton Gadol Yihyeh".
Short headings before blessings printed in Ladino.
The center of the leaf is occupied by an illustration of a class of students. Several students are shown studying by a table, with a winged figure hovering over them and showering them with treats. Near them is a teacher brandishing a whip, ready to hit a disobedient student.
Charts such as this one were printed in Italy from the mid-17th century until the 19th century. Most of the charts were printed in a similar format, with the Aleph-Bet chart in the center and accompanying texts (with typographic variations). The illustration at the center of this leaf also appears in all other charts, with minor variations in the details (in earlier charts the illustration is a woodcut, while in later ones it is engraved).
Approx. 37X51 cm (uneven trimming). Fair condition. Stains, including dark stains, affecting text. Folding marks. Tears and open tears to folds and elsewhere, affecting text and center illustration, repaired with paper filling (many reparations to verso). Matted with tape.
Not recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book and does not appear in the NLI catalog. This appears to be the only extant copy in the world.
For details about other Aleph-Bet charts printed in Italy, and about the variations between the illustrations, see: Y. Yudlov, Italian Alphabet Charts, Kiryat Sefer, 62, 1988-1989, pp. 930-932 (Hebrew; the present chart does not appear in Yudlov's list).
