Sepher Zevach Pesach

AUCTION 31 | Tuesday, December 13th, 2005 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew and Other Printed Books

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Lot 143

(HAGADAH).

Sepher Zevach Pesach

With commentary by Isaac Abrabanel. Inscriptions on title ff. 60, (4). Misbound: ff. 29-32, 54-5 (though all complete). Title cropped with some loss, stained, tear on f.53 repaired. Modern calf. 4to Yudlov 33; Yaari 25; Mehlman 369

Bistrowitz: Kalonymus b. Mordecai Jaffe 1592

Est: $12,000 - $15,000

PRICE REALIZED $13,000

THE FIRST HAGADAH PRINTED IN EASTERN EUROPE. See Yerushalmi 33 The reason as to why this book was printed in this rather obscure village, (- indeed it was the first and remained the only Hebrew book to be printed there-) is most intriguingly suggested by Yerushalmi (op. cit.) The printer fled to Bistrowitz from nearby Lublin in order to escape the plague. This is suggested by the Biblical verse chosen for the chronogram on the title-page: “And he stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stayed.” (Numbers 17:13)