Teshuvoth RaDa"K LaNotzrim [“Responses of R. David Kimchi to the Christians”]

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Lot 155

KIMCHI, DAVID

Teshuvoth RaDa"K LaNotzrim [“Responses of R. David Kimchi to the Christians”]

FIRST EDITION. Wide margins. Single leaf. Wormed and stained. Unbound. Folio Vinograd, Venice 8; Mehlman 1227; Mehlman, Genuzoth Sepharim, pp. 40-41

(Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1518)

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,500

One of the areas of scholarship in which R. David Kimchi excelled, was as a polemicist in regard to Christian-Jewish disputation. The present leaf, is exceptionally scarce as it was immediately removed from its original source, the first Biblia Rabbinica (1517) by zealous Papal censors.