Yefeh Mareh [on the Aggadic portions of the Jerusalem Talmud]

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Lot 159

JAFFE, SAMUEL BEN ISAAC ASCHKENAZI

Yefeh Mareh [on the Aggadic portions of the Jerusalem Talmud]

Second edition. Printer’s devices on title and verso (Yaari, nos. 18 and 35). Single Oriental signature at bottom of title. Combined Hebrew and Latin marginalium on f.81r concerning geography of Africa ff. 331. Title silked and first leaves remargined. Modern blind-tooled calf. Folio Vinograd, Venice 742; Habermann, di Gara 115; Adams T-112

Venice: Asher Parenzo for Giovanni di Gara 1590

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $700

R. Samuel Jaffe (d. late 16th century), was spiritual leader of the Aschkenazi community of Constantinople. Jaffe is famous for his commentaries to the Midrash Rabbah: Yefeh To'ar and Yefeh Einayim. According to the introduction to Yefeh Mareh, the author composed the commentary to the aggadoth in the Jerusalem Talmud because they oftentimes overlap the aggadoth in Midrash Rabbah, in doing so, Jaffe trod vigin soil. As he points out in his introduction, the only previous attempt to unpack these treasures of the Jerusalem Talmud was the minimal effort by the author of Ein Yaakov, R. Jacob ibn Habib. See EJ, Vol. IX, col. 1266