Margalioth Tovah [super-commentary to Abraham ibn Ezra 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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ASCHKENAZI, YEKUTHIEL

Margalioth Tovah [super-commentary to Abraham ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch]

FIRST EDITION.With additional commentaries: Ohel Yoseph, Mekor Chaim and Megilath Setarim. With important, extensive marginal notes in the hand of R. Baruch Yitzchak Lipschuetz, the son of the Tifphereth Yisrael. WITH iNSCRIPTION (cut) ON FIRST LEAF OF APPROBATIONS, citing the name of the author of Tiphereth Yisrael with great titles ff.(4),156. Lacking plate at end. Previous owner inscriptions on title. Modern boards. Folio

Amsterdam: Isaac de Cordova 1722

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

Baruch Yitzchak Lipschuetz was the author of many scholarly works , the most celebrated of which are his lengthy notes and emendations to his father’s Tiphereth Yisrael. These notes are usually prefixed by the intials AB”Y (= Amar Baruch Yitzchak). He served as Rabbi of Landsberg and Mecklenburg, later moving to Hamburg and Berlin. For additional information, see the citation by A. A . Ephron, Chamisha Alphin (Vilna, 1914) pp. 2-3 and noted by E. Katzman, Ledemuth Ha’Gaon R. Yehoshua Heschel Lewin in: Yeshurun, Volume VI, pp. 703-5