/RaMBa”N). Peirush HaTorah [commentary to the Pentateuch]

AUCTION 14 | Tuesday, November 13th, 2001 at 1:00

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

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Lot 299

MOSES BEN NACHMAN (NACHMANIDES.

/RaMBa”N). Peirush HaTorah [commentary to the Pentateuch]

Third Incunable Edition. Printed in rabbinic script without Nikud. Title within ornate historiated woodcut borders. Initial word within white-vine woodcut border. ff. 205 (of 244). ff. 1-8,10-11,40-56,67,131,228,235-243 and lower corners of ff. 227,229-234 all provided in facsimile. Lacking f.66(blank) and final blank. Variously washed and repaired. Modern morocco. Sm. folio Vinograd, Naples 10; Goff Heb-88; Freimann & Marx, Thesaurus A-65; Goldstein 57; Offenberg, 98

Naples: Joseph ben Jacob Aschkenazi Gunzenhausen 1490

Est: $10,000 - $15,000

Twenty eight books were printed at the short-lived Hebrew press at Naples which operated from 1480-1500. No doubt the Naples craftsmen would have continued to produce good books had not the Spanish Expulsion and the consequent political changes for Jews throughout Europe silenced the activity of the Neapolitan Hebrew presses. See Amram, The Makers of Hebrew books in Italy, pp.63-6