With Matnoth Kehunah [commentary to Exodus Rabbah-Deuteronomy Rabbah and Chamesh Megiloth Rabbah] by Issachar Baer ben Naphtali Katz of Szczebrzesyn (Shebreshin).

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

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

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MIDRASH RABBAH

With Matnoth Kehunah [commentary to Exodus Rabbah-Deuteronomy Rabbah and Chamesh Megiloth Rabbah] by Issachar Baer ben Naphtali Katz of Szczebrzesyn (Shebreshin).

FIRST EDITION of Matnoth Kehunah. Separate title for Midrash Chamesh Megiloth Rabbata. On final page, signature of R. Abraham Joseph Solomon Graziano, "Is"h ge"r anochi ba-aretz" and replete with Graziano's detailed marginalia. Uncut copy. ff. 272,136. Light stains, few margins frayed, tear to second title. Modern vellum. Folio Vinograd, Salonika 128; Mehlman, Genuzoth Sepharim 46

Salonika: Abraham Joseph Bat-Sheva 1594

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $2,000

THE ISH-GER COPY REPLETE WITH HIS MARGINAL NOTES. Abraham Joseph Solomon Graziano (d. 1684), the Rabbi of Modena, was a noted halachic scholar, bibliophile and poet. (See S. Baron, "Teshuvah…me-eth R. Abraham Graziano" in Studies in Memory of A.S. Freidus (1929), pp. 122-37; A. J. Karp, From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress, pp. 155-6). The commentary Matnoth Kehunah to Genesis Rabbah (total ff.40) was published as a separate entity the following year, 1595 (see Mehlman 892)