Eliyahu Mizrachi [super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch]

AUCTION 23 | Tuesday, March 30th, 2004 at 1:00

Hebrew Printed Books & Manuscripts from The Rare Book Room of the Jews College Library, London The Third Portion

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Lot 182

MIZRACHI, ELIJAH

Eliyahu Mizrachi [super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch]

Title with printer’s mark. Map of Eretz Israel on f. 235a. WITH IMPORTANT, LENGTHY, EXTENSIVE MARGINAL NOTES THROUGHOUT ff. 320. Title repaired affecting one letter. f. 32 written in a neat hand plus a loose printed f. 32 from another copy. Some dampstaining, previous owners inscription on title, Binyamin ben Yitzchak Bachrach Aschkenazi. Recent calf. Folio Vinograd, Venice 592; E. & G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land (1992), pp.19-21

Venice: Bragadin 1574

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $4,000

THE SCHOLARLY NOTES ARE WRITTEN IN A CLEAR, LATE 16TH-EARLY 17TH CENTURY ASCHKENAZIC HAND. THEY BEAR A REMARKABLE RESEMBLANCE TO THE HANDWRITTEN MARGINAL NOTES BY A DISCIPLE OF THE MAHRA”L OF PRAGUE ON THE MORDECHAI (Sold Kestenbaum & Company, 4th December, 2003, Lot 179)