The famous Porges Library, one of the most noted collections of Judaica in the world, will not be put up for auction here by the Hemeryck firm, it was announced today.
The library was the possession of Rabbi Professor Nathan Porges of Leipzig, who died there in 1924, at the age of seventy-six. From 1913 on, Professor Porges held the chair of Oriental languages at Leipzig University. He was one of the greatest authorities on early printed Hebrew books and bibliography.
His collection contained many valuable Hebrew manuscripts and incunabula, rare first folios; among them the first edition of the “Zohar”; rare works of Karaite literature, and works by Christian Hebraists of the Renaissance. Many of the items are of special value because of the bibliographical notes added by Professor Porges.
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