PENTATEUCH, HAPHTAROTH AND FIVE SCROLLS). Chamishah Chumshei Torah
AUCTION 25 |
Monday, October 25th,
2004 at 1:00
Important Hebrew Printed Books: The Property of a Gentleman
Lot 7
(BIBLE
PENTATEUCH, HAPHTAROTH AND FIVE SCROLLS). Chamishah Chumshei Torah
Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1548
Est: $8,000 - $10,000
PRICE REALIZED $15,000
The popularity of Nachmanides’' commentary is evident from its many publications both separatey and as part of the Mikra'oth Gedoloth. Already in the fifteenth century, scholars saw the need for a super-commentary. R. Isaac Aboab (1433-1493), who, according to Alexander Marx, was the head of the greatest Torah Academy in Spain before the Expulsion (Studies in Jewish History and Booklore, pp.88-89, 431-2), composed one of the most important of these super-commentaries. It was first published independantly in Constantinople, 1525. There seems to have been a demand for it to be published together with the text of the Pentateuch and the Ramba"n so that both commentaries would be more intelligible and immediately accessible. The present volume constitutes the first publication of the text of both commentaries together, side by side, on the same page