Sepher Iyov im Peirush [commentary to Book of Job with text]

AUCTION 44 | Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at 1:00

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

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Lot 147

ISAAC BEN SOLOMON HAKOHEN

Sepher Iyov im Peirush [commentary to Book of Job with text]

FIRST EDITION. Title within typographic border. ff. (146). Signatures and inscriptions of previous owners in Italian hands on the title, including Shimshon Chaim Trani, Daniel di Castillo and others, according to one inscription the writer apparently acquired the book from the "hands of the author." Some staining and slight marginal worming, two leaves apparently inserted from a shorter copy. Later half-calf. 4to. [Vinograd, Const. 185; Yaari, Const. 139 (this copy variant B); not in Adams].

Constantinople: Eliezer Soncino 1545

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,400

In his introduction, the author notes he followed the methodology of The Me’iri (R. Menahem Me’iri of Perpignan) (1249-1316). Isaac HaKohen's work is an inavaluable reference, for unlike Meiri’s commentaries to Proverbs and Psalms, his commentary to the Book of Job did not survive the passage of time Isaac ben Solomon Hakohen lived in Constantinople in the 16th-century. Besides his commentary to Job, he composed a commentarty to the Ethics of the Fathers. See JE, vol. VI, col. 633