Chizkuni [commentary to the Pentateuch]

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

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Lot 105

Chezekiah ben Manoach

Chizkuni [commentary to the Pentateuch]

FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Title letters as well as initial Chapter words historiated, f. 79r diagram of the twelve stones in the High Priest’s breast-plate. Owner’s signature in an Italian hand on f. 3a. Scattered marginalia in a square and cursive Ashkenazic hand. A well-margined copy ff. 157, (1). Title and f. 24 slightly repaired, some staining. Later half-calf, rubbed. 4to Vinograd, Cremona 26; Benayahu, Cremona, no. 24 (illustrated p.76)

Cremona: Vicenzo Conti 1559

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,600

Chezekiah ben Manoach (mid-13th century), apparently of France, was a Biblical commentator of the School of Rash”i. Although this work was included in the Venice 1524 edition of the Pentateuch, this particular Cremona edition is the first seperate edition. See EJ, Vol. VIII, cols. 459-60 (illustrated). Meir Benayahu writes that most copies of Chizkuni are lacking ff. 155-156, which were removed by Church censorship (see his Hebrew Printing at Cremona (Jerusalem, 1971), p. 211, fortunately, our copy is entirely complete.