Binyan Shlomo [grammar]

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Lot 135

KATZ, SOLOMON ZALMAN (HANAU)

Binyan Shlomo [grammar]

FIRST EDITION. Title within typographical border.Title with signature of David ben Nathan Gruenhut, 17th century Rabbi of Wiesbaden and Frankfurt (see EJ, VII cols. 946-7). ff. (8), 108, (1). Title repaired with tape. Dampstained. Modern boards. 4to Vinograd, Frankfurt a/Main 435; NO COPY IN THE JNUL

Frankfurt a/ Main: Mathias Andrea 1724

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $800

Contains last leaf missing in most copies. In this page the author asks forgiveness from all the sages he attacked in his book, namely: Don Isaac Abravanel, Abraham Ibn Ezra, David Kimchi, Elijah Bahur, et al. The owner of our copy, R. David Gruenhut distinguished himself as a talmudist and kabbalist. The dates of his birth and death are uncertain. He published several works: R. Isaac Luria’s Sepher ha-Gilgulim(Book of Transmigrations) (Frankfurt, 1684); Jacob Weil’s Tov Ro’i (laws of ritual slaughter) to which he appended his own commentary to the Book of Genesis, Migdol David (Frankfurt, 1702), Judah he-Hasid’s Sepher Hasidim with his own commentary (Frankfurt, 1712), and Samuel Uceda’s Midrash Shmuel (Frankurt, 1713). EJ, Vol. 7, cols. 946-947. He also penned an explanation of a riddle by Ibn Ezra, Midbar Sin (Frankfurt, 1769).