Oth Emeth [annotations and emendations to various Midrashic and liturgical texts]

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BENVENISTE, MEIR

Oth Emeth [annotations and emendations to various Midrashic and liturgical texts]

FIRST EDITION ff. 182. Stained and wormed roughly repaired, loss to some words. Final two leaves inserted from another copy. Later half morocco, rubbed. 4to Vinograd, Salonika 65; St. Cat. Bodl. no. 6294; Weiner no. 546

Salonika: Joseph Ya’avetz 1564-65

Est: $1,500 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,400

Important work containing textual emendations for the correct reading of the various Midrashic texts including Mechilta, Sifre, and Sifra. Includes some lengthier notes and comments from a manuscript by R. Judah Gedaliah and other annonymous commentators. The final section, Seder Kedusha,(pp. 173-181) corrects erroneous readings in the Sephardic Seder Tephillah, presenting alternate readings with scholarly halachic sources. The Midrashic scholar J. Theodor, greatly praised this work, see Maamar Al Peirush Bereishit Rabah, in Tiphereth Yisrael, I. Lewy Festschrift (Breslau, 1911), pp. 132-154