With Targum Onkelos, commentaries of Rashi, Jacob ben Asher and Shabbetai Bass. With Nikud

AUCTION 9 | Tuesday, March 28th, 2000 at 1:00

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Lot 179

(BIBLE, Hebrew. PENTATEUCH, FIVE SCROLLS & HAPHTAROTH)

With Targum Onkelos, commentaries of Rashi, Jacob ben Asher and Shabbetai Bass. With Nikud

Second Corrected edition with the Bass commentray Sifthei Chachamim. Additional engraved title page depicting Moses and Aaron. Woodcut Menorah on letterpress title. Divsional titles for Five Scrolls and Haphtaroth with woodcut architectural border including vignette of the author with music-sheet and notation “yodea nagen.” See Yaari’s Printers Marks,no. 77a ff. (5), 368, 28 i.e. 396, lacks one leaf (end of introduction). Browned and stained in places, marginal repairs on first few leaves. Later boards, rubbed, backstrip loose. 4to Vinograd, Dyhernfurth 33 (with erroneous collation); not in Darlow & Moule; JNUL copy incomplete

Dyhernfurth: Shabbetai Bass 1693

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

Bass writes in his introduction the reason for republishing his exceedingly popular super-commentary to Rashi (first edition, 1680) is due to competition with a rival Dutch press. This Dyhernfurth edition under Bass’s supervision was extensively reworked - the rival edition ultimately failed to appear. This edition is indeed the true second edition, self-evident by the approbations - unlike that postulated by Friedberg (Beth Eked p.1075, no.652) which does not contain the Siftei Chachamim at all (see St. Cat. Bodl. no. 620). The Bodleian copy of the Dyhernfurth, 1693 edition (St. Cat. Bodl. no.669) contains Pentateuch and Megiloth only. Bass was renowned for his pleasant voice, hence the sobriquet: “Meshorer.” Indeed, during his sojourn in Prague, he was engaged as Cantor of the famed Altneu Synagogue