Simanim al Chidushei HaBachaya. * With (as issued): Naphtulei Elo-him Niphtalti.

AUCTION 46 | Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Graphic Art

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Lot 274
TREVES, NAPHTALI HERTZ.

Simanim al Chidushei HaBachaya. * With (as issued): Naphtulei Elo-him Niphtalti.

FIRST EDITION. ff. 10, 27. Trimmed, some staining. Modern vellum backed calf. Sm. folio Vinograd, Hedderenheim 1; Mehlman 652; Deinard, Atikoth Yehudah p.30; not in Adams

Hedderenheim: Chaim Schachor (Schwartz) and Partners 1546

Est: $4,000 - $6,000
First of only two Hebrew books printed in this town near Frankfurt a/Main. The printer began his career at the Kohen printing establishment in Prague, where he produced almost all the woodcut illustrations for the famous Prague Hagadah of 1526. See A.M. Haberman, Kiryat Sepher, Vol. XXXI (1955-56) pp.483-500. The present work is Kabbalistic super-commentary and index to Bachaya b. Asher’s commentary to the Pentateuch. The introduction contains important genealogical information about the Treves family. For an excellent study on the Kabbalistic sources of R. Bachaya, see E. Gottlieb, Mekorotav shel R. Bachaya…Be’kitvei R. Yoseph Gikatilla in: Bar Ilan University Annual Vol. I (1969), pp. 306-26; and Yitzchak Sagi Nahor, Mekorot R. Bachaya Be’kitvei Ha’mekubalim in: Bar Ilan University Annual, Samuel Bialoblocki Memorial Volume (1964) pp. 215-50.