Arbah Ve’esrim - Minchath Shai

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

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Lot 184

(BIBLE, Hebrew)

Arbah Ve’esrim - Minchath Shai

Four parts bound in two volumes. Commentary by Jedidiah Solomon Norzi. Each part preceded by magnificent engraved frontispiece displaying eight Biblical vignettes with printer’s device (Yaari no.121) at top, main and divisional titles in red and black Vol I: ff.(4),142 (i.e. 138);(2),88. Vol II: ff.(2),98;(2),54,51,(2),5. Lightly browned, stained in places. Later mottled calf, rubbed. Large 4to Vinograd, Mantua 397 (incorrect foliation); Darlow & Moule 5150

Mantua: Raphael (Isaac) Chaim d’Italia the Physician 1742-44

Est: $1,200 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,900

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). The appearance of such an illustration is most anomalous in a Jewish book. See C. Roth, Jewish Art (1961) cols.25-6 (illustrated).