Sepher Mateh Aharon. With commentary by Aaron Darshan Te'omim

AUCTION 22 | Tuesday, January 27th, 2004 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic Art Including Holy Land Maps, Illustrated Books, Photography and Graphic Art from The Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg of Greenwich, Conn

Back to Catalogue Download Catalogue

<Previous Lot

/282

Next Lot>

Lot 65

(HAGADAH)

Sepher Mateh Aharon. With commentary by Aaron Darshan Te'omim

Second edition. 14 fine copper-plate engravings after the 1695 Amsterdam Hagadah. TItle within ornate 4-part historiated border. With endorsement of R. Naftali Katz of Frankfurt. ff.(2), 2-44. Title and several pages laid to size. Browned and stained in usual places. Modern boards. Folio Yudlov 113; Yaari 71; Vinograd, Frankfurt a/Main 255

Frankfurt a/Main: n.p 1710

Est: $800 - $1,200

Rabbi Aaron Te'omim served as a preacher in Prague (1659-1670), and Rabbi in Worms (1670-1687) and Cracow (1690). He died a martyrs death in 1690. No less an authority than Rabbi Ya'ir Hayim Bacharach, author of Responsa Chavoth Ya'ir, accused Te'omim of hiding sources (but not outright plagiarism): “In many places he [Te'omim] attributes to 'commentators' without bothering to credit the author.” Bacharach, Hakdamath Sepher Mateh Aharon, p. 353 in: Ha-Misderonah I (1885), pp. 348-364. See M. Weintraub's introduction to the Diskin facsimile edition; Hayim Michael, Or ha-Hayim (Jerusalem, 1965), pp. 145-6; EJ IV, col. 48; Bezalel Naor, Haggadah Aviv ha-'Olam (Spring Valley, 2004), Appendix IV.