Bi'ur al HaTorah [Kabbalistic commentary to the Pentateuch]

AUCTION 47 | Thursday, December 10th, 2009 at 1:00

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

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Lot 55

BACHIAH BEN ASHER.

Bi'ur al HaTorah [Kabbalistic commentary to the Pentateuch]

In first words of each book, letters white within individual floriated vignettes. On verso of title, inscriptions of former owners in Temanic script. Numerous rabbinic marginalia ff. 233 (i.e.243). Browned and stained, crude tape repairs, occasional tears, corners rounded. Modern vellum-backed boards. Folio Vinograd, Venice 216; Habermann, Adelkind 4

Venice: Giovanni dei Farri-Cornelio Adelkind 1544

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $750

Encyclopedic work utilizing wide variety of sources. Especially noteworthy are the Kabbalistic references as well as Midrashic interpretations. R. Bachiah was well versed in this literature and brings forth passages from lost Midrashim. For an excellent work on the Kabbalistic sources of R. Bachiah, see E. Gottlieb, "Mekorotav shel R. Bachiah...be-Kitvei R. Yosef Gikatilla" in Bar Ilan University Annual, Vol. I (1969), pp. 306-26; and idem, "R. Yitzchak Sagi Nahor VeTalmidav - Mekorot R. Bachiah B’Kitvei HaMekubalim" in Bar Ilan University Annual, Samuel Bialoblocki Memorial Volume (1964) pp. 215-250