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

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

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

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MIZRACHI, ELIJAH

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

Second Edition. Title within woodcut architectural border. First word of each book of Pentateuch within ornate surround. Map of Eretz Israel on verso f.280v. (cf. E. & G. Wajntraub, no.W,8). Numerous old scholartly marginalia in Hebrew. On final page, Church censor's inscription: "Revisus p[er] me Laurentiu[m] Franguellu[m], 1575." (See Wm. Popper, Pl. IV, no. 5) ff. 320. Old tape-repair on title and f.51. Marginal worming, text slightly affected, light stains. Modern morocco. Folio Vinograd, Venice 235; Habermann, Bomberg 175; Adams M-1517

Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1545

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $700

Elijah Mizrachi’s map of the Holy Land first appeared in the Venice 1523 edition of his super-commentary. Although primitively drawn, it correctly notes 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