Toldoth Yitzchak [commentary to the Pentateuch]

AUCTION 49 | Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Graphic Art

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Toldoth Yitzchak [commentary to the Pentateuch]

Third edition. Previous owners’ signatures in Italian hands on title including Raphael Rovigo (see below). Wide margins ff. (2), 116. Stained in places, dampwrinkled, last page (blank) soiled, upper marginal hole on f.113 not affecting text. Later boards, gutter spilt, worn. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Riva 2

Riva di Trento: (Jacob Marcaria the Physician) 1558

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $650

According to some sources, Raphael Rovigo was the father of the famed kabbalist R. Abraham Rovigo of Modena (c.1650-1713,) who at the turn of the 18th-century settled in Eretz Israel, establishing there an important yeshivah. Gershom Scholem however, has Michael Rovigo as the father of R. Abraham Rovigo. See N.Z. Friedmann, Otzar Harabanim 17838, 815; EJ, Vol. XIV, cols. 355-56