Commentary to the Pentateuch

AUCTION 26 | Monday, November 22nd, 2004 at 1:00

Exceptional Printed Books, Sixty-Five Hebrew Incunabula: The Elkan Nathan Adler-Wineman Family Collection

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Lot 22

SOLOMON BEN ISAAC OF TROYES (RASH”I)

Commentary to the Pentateuch

Third edition. Double columns. Semi-cursive Sephardi (Rashi) type ff. 2 (of 88). f.1 (Gen. 47:2-49:9) incomplete; f.2 (Exodus 38:27-Leviticus 1:2) complete. Modern patterned boards. 25 x 15.5 cm. Folio Vinograd, Soncino 17; not in Goff; Goldstein 37; Offenberg 114; Steinschneider, p. 6927, 3; Thesaurus A42; Wineman Cat. 22. Not in Cambridge University or HUC, JNUL with fragment of 9 leaves

Soncino: Joshua Solomon ben Israel Nathan Soncino 1487

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,800

FRAGMENTS OF AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE EDITION OF RASHI. Offenberg notes only six recorded copies These two leaves were extracted from an old binding. The first word of each of the Five Books was left out to be inserted by hand (see here: “Vayikra”)