Pirush Chamesh Megilloth [commentary to the Five Scrolls, Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Daniel, Ezra & Nachamiah and Chronicles]

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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YACHYAH, JOSEPH BEN DAVID IBN

Pirush Chamesh Megilloth [commentary to the Five Scrolls, Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Daniel, Ezra & Nachamiah and Chronicles]

FIRST EDITION. Initial word of each chapter within decorative woodcut frame. Previous owner’s marks on title ff. 40, 121 (ie. 122). Trace foxed. Later half-calf, rubbed. Folio Vinograd, Bologna 11; Adams J-337

Bologna: The Company of Jewish Silk Weavers 1538

Est: $1,200 - $1,800

PRICE REALIZED $3,500

A Particularly Fine Wide-Margined Copy. Contains fascinating conjecture concerning the return of the Jews to the Land of Israel by the year 5700 (i.e. 1940) (viz. Book of Daniel, f.110r). The seventh of only nine books printed by the Jewish Silk Weaver’s Guild. See Amram, The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy, pp.232-35