Sepher Penei Rabah [concordance of Biblical verses recorded in the Midrash Rabbah]

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Lot 166

MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL

Sepher Penei Rabah [concordance of Biblical verses recorded in the Midrash Rabbah]

ONLY EDITION. Two parts in one, divisional title prior to Five Scrolls ff.(2),53,(1),25. Dampstained. Later boards. 4to Silva Rosa 4; Fuks, Amsterdam 148

Amsterdam: Menasseh ben Israel 1628

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $650

Menasseh ben Israel’s first published work. The printing was subsidized by Menasseh’s friends, Messrs. Ephraim Bueno and Jonah Abarbanel. The work is prefaced by a commendatory poem of Isaac Aboab.