Eliyahu Mizrachi [super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch]

AUCTION 39 | Thursday, April 03rd, 2008 at 1:00

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

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Lot 233

MIZRACHI, ELIJAH

Eliyahu Mizrachi [super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch]

Second Edition. Title within woodcut architectural border. Map of Eretz Israel on verso f.280v. (cf. E. & G. Wajntraub, no.W,8) ff. 320. Some staining in places, scattered marginal notes, extensive marginal note on f. 71a in a Sephardic hand, very slight worming to last few leaves, some marginal repair to title and some leaves, previous owners inscriptions on title in Ashkenazic hands, unusual woman's signaure on verso of title "Frumet Bath ..Yisrael Margolioth of Cracow." Recent morrocco-backed boards. Folio Vinograd, Venice 235; Habermann, Bomberg 175; Adams M-1517

Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1545

Est: $1,800 - $2,200

Elijah Mizrachi’s map of Eretz Israel is the first printed map of the Holy Land. It first appeared in the Venice 1523 edition of his super-commentary. Although primitively drawn, it describes the borders of Eretz Israel and the places mentioned in Deuteronomy. See: E. & G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land (1992), pp.19-21. Given the rigid gender politics of the time, it is surprisng to find such a scholarly text with an ownership signature of a woman