Eliyah Mizrachi [super-commentary to Rashi on the Chumash].

Auction 94 | Thursday, June 17th, 2021 at 11:00am

Rare & Excellent Hebrew Printed Books: From the Library of Arthur A. Marx

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MIZRACHI, ELIYAHU.

Eliyah Mizrachi [super-commentary to Rashi on the Chumash].

Second edition. Title within woodcut architectural border. First word of each Book of Pentateuch within ornate surround. <<Map of Eretz Israel>> on f. 280v. ff. 320. Previous owner’s marks, lightly stained in places. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum over thick wooden boards, later clasps. Folio. Vinograd, Venice 235.

Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1545

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,000

Possibly the most well-known Romaniote rabbi, R. Elijah Mizrachi (c. 1450-1526) was well-versed in Torah and secular fields of knowledge. He served as the rabbi of newly Ottoman Constantinople, and essentialy served as the leading Rabbinic authority throughout the Ottoman Empire. R. Elijah Mizrachi’s map of the Holy Land first appeared in the Venice 1523 edition of his super-commentary. Although primitively drawn, it correctly notes the borders of Eretz Israel and the places mentioned in Deuteronomy. See E. & G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land (1992) pp. 19-21, and no. W8.