Meir Iyov [commentary to the Book of Job, with text]

AUCTION 30 | Tuesday, September 20th, 2005 at 1:00

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Lot 54

ARAMA, MEIR BEN ISAAC

Meir Iyov [commentary to the Book of Job, with text]

Second edition. Title letters historiated. Printer’s device (Yaari, Printer’s Marks no. 34) ff. 124. Previous owners’ marks. Contemporary blind-tooled morocco on heavy boards,with hinges (lacking clasps). 4to Vinograd Venice 546; Roest 209; not in Adams

Venice (-Riva di Trento): Giorgio di Cavali [1562]-1567

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $950

The printing of this edition commenced in Riva di Trento in 1562, however production was interrupted and eventually removed to Venice for completion. There, a new title-page was issued noting Venice as being the place of publication, athough non-uniform fonts completed the volume (viz. ff. 5-44 and 49-64). See Tauber & Sonne, Kiryat Sepher vol. VI pp. 455-56 and vol. VII pp. 168-6 Meir Arama (1460-c. 1545), a native of Saragossa, fled the Expulsion to Naples and eventually sunk roots in Salonika, where he preached to the emigré Aragonian Community. He was the son of the “Ba’al ha-Akeidah.”