Megilath Shir Hashirim [commentary to the Song of Songs, with text]

AUCTION 48 | Thursday, May 27th, 2010 at 1:00

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Lot 214

TAMACH, ABRAHAM BEN ISAAC HALEVI

Megilath Shir Hashirim [commentary to the Song of Songs, with text]

FIRST EDITION. Printer’s device on final leaf (Yaari, Printer’s Marks no.20). The Mayer Sulzberger copy. ff.64. Title torn and repaired with loss of text, worming along upper portion of few leaves, stained in places. Later boards. 24mo Vinograd, Sabbioneta 48; not in Adams

Sabbioneta: Tobias Foa 1558

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $900

A scarce little book. A modern critical edition was issued by L.A. Feldman in 1970, which includes a short biography of Tamach, a 14th-century Spanish paytan and philosopher.