Hebrew and Yiddish. PENTATEUCH, MEGILOTH AND HAPHTAROTH). Chamishash Chumshei Torah

AUCTION 38 | Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Hebrew and Yiddish. PENTATEUCH, MEGILOTH AND HAPHTAROTH). Chamishash Chumshei Torah

Three parts in one. Hebrew text surrounded by Yiddish paraphrase in Waybe-Taytsch letters. Title within arch. Divisional title for Haphtaroth. Tailpieces pp. 408. Trimmed and variously repaired, affecting few letters. First 2ff. laid to size with loss. Recent half-sheep, rubbed, ex-library. 4to Vinograd, Amsterdam 738 Fuks, Amsterdam 561 (without noting presence of Megiloth); not in Darlow & Moule]

Amsterdam: Caspar Pietersen Steen 1702

Est: $200 - $250

PRICE REALIZED $300

The Song of Songs is prefaced by a lengthy Yiddish essay explaining that Solomon, under the influence of the Divine Spirit (ru’ach ha-kodesh), couched the love of God in the earthly, erotic love of a young man and woman