Biur Al Hatorah [Kabbalistic commentary to the Pentateuch]

AUCTION 11 | Tuesday, November 28th, 2000 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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BACHIAH BEN ASHER.

Biur Al Hatorah [Kabbalistic commentary to the Pentateuch]

Title within woodcut architectural arch. Opening letters within floral woodcut vignettes. WIth Final Leaf Illustrating the Sefiroth, lacking from most copies ff. 235, 235-246, (1). Lightly browned and stained in places, title laid down, marginal repairs on following two leaves. Later moroco backed boards, rubbed. Sm. folio Vinograd, Cracow 147; Mehlman 641; not in Adams

Cracow: Isaac Prostitz 1592-3

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,600

Great influential encyclopedic work utilizing wide variety of sources. Especially noteworthy are his Kabbalistic references as well as his Midrashic interpretation. He was well versed in this literature and bringing forth passages from lost Midrashim. For an excellent work on the Kabbalistic sources of R. Bachiah, see E. Gottlieb, Mekorotav shel R. Bachiah...Be’kitvei R. Yoseph Gikatilla in: Bar Ilan University Annual Vol. I (1969) pp. 306-26; and R. Yitzchak Sag Nahor Ve’talmidav- Mekorot R. Bachiah Be’kitvei Ha’mekubalim, Bar Ilan University Annual, Samuel Bialoblocki Memorial Volume, (1964) pp.215-50. The rarity of this particular edition is evidenced by the fact that Chavel states in his annotated scholarly edition (Mossad Harav Kook,1966), he was unable to locate a copy