Biuri’m [super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch]

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

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Ceremonial & Graphic Art

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Lot 205

SHAPIRO, NATHAN BEN SHIMSHON (ATTRIBUTED TO)

Biuri’m [super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch]

FIRST EDITION. Title within a garlanded architectural arch. Opening words within a decorative woodcut. Woodcut illustration of the Temple candelabra on f. 85, map of Biblical Israel on verso of f. 150 ff.180. Boards, rubbed. 8vo Vinograd, Venice 778; Mehlman 609; not in Adams

Venice: Matteo Zannetti (for Bernardo Justinian) 1593

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $750

This book was banned in the districts of Lublin and Cracow as the author’s son stated that it was falsely attributed to his father in order to promote sales. He published his father’s actual writings on the Pentateuch and Rashi under the name Imrei Shepher in Cracow and Lublin in 1597. See E. Katzman, Yeshurun, Vol. XIII