Tzaphnath Paane’ach [commentary to the Books of Ecclesiastes and Job]

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

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Lot 173

LUSITANO, SAMUEL HACOHEN OF PISA

Tzaphnath Paane’ach [commentary to the Books of Ecclesiastes and Job]

First Edition. Title within typographical border, woodcut device on title (Ya’ari, Printers’ Marks no. 59). Marginalium on f.24r., possibly the author's own corrigendum ff.(2), 33 (i.e. 31). Dampstained. Limp vellum, stained. 8vo Vinograd, Venice 1324

Venice: Giovanni Martinelli for Vendramin 1656

Est: $200 - $300

PRICE REALIZED $275

In his commentary to the Book of Job, the author advances the novel theory that Job was in fact Job son of Issachar son of Jacob. The author accepts the Talmudic notion that Moses authored the Book of Job; thus Job himself would have been a contemporary of Moses in Egypt - although obviously older in age