Sepher Arba’ah Ve’Esrim. With commentary Minchath Shai.
Auction 94 |
Thursday, June 17th,
2021 at 11:00am
Rare & Excellent Hebrew Printed Books: From the Library of Arthur A. Marx
Lot 60
(BIBLE).
Sepher Arba’ah Ve’Esrim. With commentary Minchath Shai.
Mantua: Raphael (Isaac) Chaim d’Italia the Physician 1742
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
First edition of this most important and comprehensive commentary to the Masorah, with significance for almost every word throughout the Bible in which the possibility for error or variant reading exists.
Extraordinary frontispiece depicts the Deity as represented in the Prophet Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones (Chap. 37), among many other impressive Biblical scenes. The appearance of such an illustration is most anomalous in a Jewish book. See C. Roth, Jewish Art (1961) cols. 25-6 (illustrated).
<<Provenance:>>
Stamp of: Dayan David Meldola of London (1797-1853).
Bookplate of: Sir Moses Montefiore (1784-1885).
Stamp of: Haham Moses Gaster (1856-1939).
Custom binding of: Yeshivat Ohel Moshe VeYehudit (Judith Lady Montefiore College). Ramsgate, Kent.