Hebrew. Pentateuchm Five Megiloth and Haphtaroth). Chamishah Chumshei Torah

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

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Hebrew. Pentateuchm Five Megiloth and Haphtaroth). Chamishah Chumshei Torah

With Targum Onkeles and commentaries by Rashi, Nachmanides and FIRST EDITION of the super-commentary to Nachmanides by Isaac Aboab. Megiloth, Haphtaroth according to the Sephardic and Aschkenazic rite. Divisional title (Haphtaroth). ff. 371( i.e. 382), 26. Trimmed, title laid down, marginal repairs with some loss, leaves washed in places, some staining, previous owners’ marks, few leaves supplied from another copy. Modern calf. Folio Vinograd, Venice 336; Habermann, Bomberg 211; Darlow & Moule (noted not listed) following no.5093; Adams B-1268

Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1548

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,800

The popularity of Nachmanides’' commentary is evident from its many publications both separately and as part of the Mikra'oth Gedoloth. Already in the 15th-century, scholars saw the need for a super-commentary. R. Isaac Aboab (1433-93), who, according to Alexander Marx, was the head of the greatest Torah Academy in Spain before the Expulsion (Studies in Jewish History and Booklore, pp.88-89, 431-2), composed one of the most important of these super-commentaries. It was first published independantly of Nachmanides’ text, in Constantinople, 1525. The present volume constitutes the first publication of the text of both commentaries together, side by side, on the same page