Chizkuni [commentary to the Pentateuch]

AUCTION 34 | Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 at 1:00

Exemplary Hebrew Books: The Library of Joseph Gradenwitz, Esq.

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Lot 42

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 ff. 157, (1). Mispaginated, though complete. Upper corners of title and first leaves repaired affecting a few letters, dampstained and slightly foxed. Owners’ signatures in various Italian hands on title and first leaf, including scions of the famous scholarly Momigliano family: Jacob and his son Abraham. Modern calf. 4to Vinograd, Cremona 26; Benayahu, Cremona, no. 24 (illustrated p.76)

Cremona: Vicenzo Conti 1559

Est: $2,000 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,000

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 separate edition. See EJ, Vol. VIII, cols. 459-60 (illustrated). Chizkuni contains many original commentaries and interpretations. 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 (1971), p. 211, fortunately, our copy is entirely complete.