Toldoth Yitzchak

AUCTION 35 | Tuesday, November 21st, 2006 at 1:00

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Lot 168

KARO, ISAAC BEN JOSEPH

Toldoth Yitzchak

Third edition. Initial words of title and sectional headings historiated ff. (2), 116, scattered light stains. Previous owners’ signatures, ex-libris and stamps including Yisrael ben HaGaon Hertz Emden. Later half calf. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Riva 2

Riva di Trento: (Jacob Marcaria the Physician) 1558

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,500

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