Pirush al HaTorah [commentary to the Pentateuch]. Edited by Samuel d’Archivolti.

AUCTION 46 | Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Graphic Art

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Pirush al HaTorah [commentary to the Pentateuch]. Edited by Samuel d’Archivolti.

FIRST EDITION. Printer’s device on title (Yaari, 18). On title and f. 2r. signature of former owner Yitzchak Shrem" (see below). Marginalia on ff. 55r and f. 82r. ff. 425 (i.e. 424), (1). Title remargined, lightly stained. Later calf-backed boards. Folio Vinograd, Venice 641; Mehlman 626; Adams A-54

Venice: Asher Parenzo for Giovanni di Gara 1579

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

R. Yitzchak Shrem of Aleppo, Syria (d. 1872), authored super-commentaries to ibn Ezra on the Bible: Be'er Yitzchak (Livorno, 1864) and Hadar Ezer (Izmir, 1865). In addition, he published a super-commentary to R. Elijah Mizrachi: Pi HaBe'er (Jerusalem, 1878). See D. Sutton, Aleppo: City of Scholars (2005), p.325.