Attributed to). Makrei Dardakei [“Primary Teacher.”]
AUCTION 83 |
Thursday, June 20th,
2019 at 1:00pm
Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Holy Land Maps, Ceremonial Objects, Fine & Graphic Art
Lot 96
(PERETZ TRABOT / YECHIEL
Attributed to). Makrei Dardakei [“Primary Teacher.”]
[Naples: Joseph ben Jacob Aschkenazi Gunzenhauser] 1488
Est: $25,000 - $35,000
<<RARE.>> A Biblical dictionary, the Hebrew explained in Italian and Arabic along with Talmudic citations.
Most bibliographers attribute the author’s name to be one Yechiel, which appears in an acrostic poem at the end of the preface. However, based upon a manuscript, Vinograd points to the author as being Peretz Trabot, who flourished in the late 14th- century. See S.L. Einbinder, No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France (2008) pp. 140-1.
The opening leaf of this book contains what may well the first separate title-page in a Hebrew book. Scholars usually record the first Hebrew Book to appear with a title-page to be the Sepher Rokeach printed in Fano, 1505.
Another copy of this rare incunable appeared in the Delmonico Collection (see Sotheby’s New York, 17th December 2008, Lot 51).