Imrei Shefer [supra-commentary to Rashi on the Chumash, focusing especially on the Mizrachi].
Auction 94 |
Thursday, June 17th,
2021 at 11:00am
Rare & Excellent Hebrew Printed Books: From the Library of Arthur A. Marx
Lot 426
SPIRA (SHAPIRO), NATHAN NOTA.
Imrei Shefer [supra-commentary to Rashi on the Chumash, focusing especially on the Mizrachi].
Cracow 1591 - Lublin,: 1597
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
PRICE REALIZED $4,000
The author (c. 1490-1577), grandfather of the author of Sepher Megaleh Amukoth (see previous lot), was an important halachic authority and head of the rabbinic court in Grodno. The present work was brought to press by R. Shapiro’s son, R. Yitzchak, who writes in the introduction here he began printing the work in Cracow but was then called to serve as a Dayan in Lublin, forcing him to suspend printing until finally it was finished in 1597 in his newly-adopted hometown. The younger Shapiro also warns that a similar work published in Venice in 1593 and attributed to his father was in fact a forgery and did not at all represent his father’s level of scholarship.