(MaHaRa’L of Prague). Gur Aryeh [super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch]

AUCTION 20 | Monday, June 02nd, 2003 at 5:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books from the Library of the Late Salman Schocken (1877-1959)

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LOEWE, JUDAH BEN BEZALEL.

(MaHaRa’L of Prague). Gur Aryeh [super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch]

FIRST EDITION. Title within historiated woodcut border ff. 228. Browned and lightly stained in places, title remargined with additional small taped repair, scattered marginal worming, final leaf remargined, signed by censor “Dominico Irosolimitano 1610” on recto of final leaf and “Giovanni Dominico Carretto 1617” on verso of final leaf. Recent cloth. Folio Vinograd, Prague 39; Mehlman 654; not in Adams

Prague: Mordechai ben Gershom Katz 1578

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

PRICE REALIZED $8,000

The Gur Aryeh is one of the most extensive works on Rashi and the Mizrachi. Many of the MaHaRa’L’s lengthier expositions in his other works are contained in a more abbreviated version in the Gur Aryeh. In his encyclopaedic work, Beith Ha’otzar (1938) the great 20th century scholar Rabbi Joseph Engel of Cracow, makes constant reference to the Gur Aryeh