Siphthei Chachamim [super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch]. With glosses by Moses Abraham Treves

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Lot 32

BASS, SHABBATHAI

Siphthei Chachamim [super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch]. With glosses by Moses Abraham Treves

First Edition. Title within decorative border ff. (1), 133 (i.e. 143). Upper and lower margins cut resulting in some loss of text. Stained and wormed. Calf-backed marbled boards. 4to. Vinograd, Frankfurt a/Main 295

Frankfurt a/Main: Johannes Koellner 1712

Est: $300 - $400

Though in the judgment of some, not necessarily the best supercommentary on RaSHI, Siphthei Chachamim was the one chosen to appear in most editions of Mikra’oth Gedoloth. Thus, for centuries, the minds of Jewish schoolchildren have been honed by Bass’s incisive questions and answers