Chizkuni [commentary to the Pentateuch]

AUCTION 25 | Monday, October 25th, 2004 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books: The Property of a Gentleman

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Lot 10

Chezekiah ben Manoach

Chizkuni [commentary to the Pentateuch]

FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Title letters as well as initial Chapter words historiated, f. 79r diagram of the twelve stones in the High Priest’s breast-plate. Owner’s signature in an Aschkenazic hand on title. Censor’s signatures on title and last page, few words censored (presently legible). Scattered marginalia in an Italian hand. A well-margined copy ff. 157, (1). Opening and closing pages lightly worn, title with early previous owner’s marks (crudely deleted), minimally stained. Later boards. 4to Vinograd, Cremona 26; Benayahu, Cremona, no. 24 (illustrated p.76)

Cremona: Vicenzo Conti 1559

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,000

Chezekiah ben Manoach (mid-13th century), apparently of France, was a Biblical commentator of the School of Rash”i. Although his work Chizkuni was earlier included in the Venice 1524 edition of the Pentateuch, this Cremona edition is the first seperate edition. See EJ, Vol. VIII, cols. 459-60 (illustrated). Meir Benayahu writes that most copies of Chizkuni are lacking ff. 155-156, which were removed by Church censorship (see his Hebrew Printing at Cremona (Jerusalem, 1971), p. 211), fortunately, our copy is entirely complete