(Editor). Margalioth Tovah [super-commentaries to Abraham ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch]

AUCTION 27 | Tuesday, February 08th, 2005 at 1:00

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Lot 28

ASCHKENAZI, YEKUTHIEL

(Editor). Margalioth Tovah [super-commentaries to Abraham ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch]

FIRST EDITION. With commentaries: Ohel Yoseph, Mekor Chaim and Megilath Setarim (Motot). Astronomical plate at end (often lacking). With significant scholarly marginalia. ff.(4),156,(1). Dampstained and dampwrinkled, old tape repair to title and f.156. Contemporary blind-tooled calf with sun-likecartouche on both covers, spine starting. Folio Vinograd, Amsterdam 1192

Amsterdam: Isaac de Cordova 1722

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $400

The editor states he gave this work the title Margalioth Tovah based upon the Midrash suggesting an exquisite pearl hung from the neck of the Biblical Abraham. He compares Abraham Ibn Ezra “in spirit” to the Abraham of the Bible. The marginalia in our copy display wide knowledge, with particular familiarity with the writings of the early Maskilim: Mendelssohn’s Be’ur, Naphtali Herz Homberg’s Otzar ha-Shorashim, etc.