[Midrash]. Anonymous.

AUCTION 12 | Tuesday, March 13th, 2001 at 1:00
Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 236
PESIKTA RABATHI

[Midrash]. Anonymous.

FIRST EDITION. Title within wreathed and garlanded woodcut architectural arch. ff. (1) 74. Lightly browned. Contemporary vellum. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Prague 415

(Prague: n.p. 1657?)

Est: $400 - $600
PRICE REALIZED $550
The Pesikta Rabathi Midrashic homilies deal only with selected passages of the Pentateuch, as well as that of the Prophets that constitute the Torah readings for the Festivals. It also contains homilies on readings from the Haftaroth, beginning with the Three Weeks of Mourning followed by the seven weeks from Shabbath Nachamu until Shabbath Shuvah. The date of this compilation is stated in the work itself to be 845 CE. The collected statements in the Rabbathi are in fact drawn from other midrashic compilations, particularly the Tanchuma, and most of its material can be traced to the original souces.