PENTATEUCH, HAPHTAROTH AND FIVE SCROLLS). Chamishah Chumashei Torah.

AUCTION 6 | Tuesday, November 17th, 1998 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 30

(BIBLE, Hebrew.

PENTATEUCH, HAPHTAROTH AND FIVE SCROLLS). Chamishah Chumashei Torah.

Printed on Yellow Paper. Prepared by Chaim Vidal, Son-in-Law of Isaiah Horowitz (The Shelo”H Hakodosh). With commentary of Rash”i, Targums (3) and Ba’al Haturim. With commentaries on the Targums by David Shabarshan and Abraham b. David of Ostrog (“Kur Lezahav”) - Only Edition of These Two Commentaries. ff.168,194. Opening leaf laid to size, lower portions of following 6 leaves expertly repaired with loss supplied in facsimile, stained. Modern boards. Thick 8vo Vinograd, Hanau 10; Mehlman 49 (incomplete); St. Cat. Bodl. 403

Hanau: Hans Jakob Hanau 1611-4

Est: $20,000 - $25,000

PRICE REALIZED $22,000

Remarkably Significant Edition. Most Textually accurate Printed Edition of Rash”I. Edited by Chaim Vidal, Son-in-Law of Isaiah Horowitz (The Shelo”h Hakodosh), Using His Father-in-Law’s Personal Annotated Chumash-Rash”i. Excessively Scarce. The Shelo”h was known to have been particularly exacting regarding textual accuracy (see verso of title-page). This volume, printed in the Shelo”h’s life-time and prepared by his son-in-law could thus only have passed the most stringent textual precision by one of the era’s most brilliant scholars.