Toldoth Yitzchak

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

Fine Judaica: Hebrew and Other Printed Books

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Lot 206

KARO, ISAAC BEN JOSEPH.

Toldoth Yitzchak

Third edition. Initial words of title and sectional headings historiated ff. (2), 116, few leaves supplied from a shorter copy, few marginal repairs, scattered light stains. Modern calf. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Riva 2

Riva di Trento: n.p. 1558

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $1,400

A concisely written commentary to the Pentateuch which includes literal, homiletical, kabbalistic and philosophical interpretations. The author, Isaac ben Joseph Karo (not to be confused with his celebrated nephew, R. Joseph Karo), was a native of Toledo and a man of very wide culture. Several years before the Spanish Expulsion in 1492, Isaac Karo moved his yeshivah to Portugal, but following the the subsequent expulsion of the Jews from Portugal in 1497, Karo fled to Turkey. He entered the rabbinate of Constantinople, where Toldoth Yitzchak was first published in 1518. See EJ, V col. 193