Hebrew, PENTATEUCH, HAPHTAROTH AND FIVE SCROLLS). Chamishah Chumshei Torah.

AUCTION 40 | Thursday, June 26th, 2008 at 1:00

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

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Hebrew, PENTATEUCH, HAPHTAROTH AND FIVE SCROLLS). Chamishah Chumshei Torah.

With Targum Onkeles and commentaries by Rashi, Ramba”n and FIRST EDITION of the super-commentary on Ramba”n by Isaac Aboab (with the text). Title within woodcut architectural arch. Haphtaroth according to the Sephardic and Aschkenazic rite with Divisional title. Marginal notes in Hebrew and Latin. A wide-margined copy. ff. 371( i.e. 382), 26. Variously stained in places, previous owners’ signatures. Modern full calf. Folio Vinograd, Venice 336; Habermann, Bomberg 211; Darlow & Moule (noted not listed) following no.5093; Adams B-1268

Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1548

Est: $8,000 - $10,000

PRICE REALIZED $16,000

The popularity of Nachmanides’' commentary is evident from its many publications both separately and as part of the Mikra'oth Gedoloth. Already in the 15th-century, scholars saw the need for such a super-commentary, hence R. Isaac Aboab (1433-1493) composed one of the most important of these exegetical works. It was first published independently in Constantinople, 1525, yet there seems to have been a demand for it to be published together with the text of the Pentateuch and the Ramba"n itself, so that both commentaries would be more intelligible and immediately accessible. The present volume constitutes the first publication of the text of both commentaries side by side. See A. Marx, Studies in Jewish History and Booklore, pp.88-89, 431-2.