Drashoth Al Ha’torah [sermons 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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Lot 135

SHUAIB, JOSHUA IBN

Drashoth Al Ha’torah [sermons to the Pentateuch]

Second Edition. Title within historiated architectural arch ff. 94 (of 96). Lacking ff. 93-4. Lightly browned and stained in places, gently damp-wrinkled. Recent boards. Folio Vinograd, Cracow 37; not in Adams

Cracow: Isaac Prostitz 1573

Est: $700 - $1,000

PRICE REALIZED $600

Ibn Shuaib was a disciple of SOLOMON ibn ADRET, (RaSHB”A) and teacher of R. Menachem ibn Zerach, the author of Tzeidah La’derech. The many epigrams in this work give it a special charm. In his sermons, he urges for the return to observance of neglected precepts and the need for recourse to Jewish Courts of Law. This edition is rather uncommon and was republished in a facsimile with a scholarly introduction by Professor S. Abramson (1969)