Oth Emeth [annotations and emendations to various Midrashic and liturgical texts]

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Lot 113

BENVENISTE, MEIR.

Oth Emeth [annotations and emendations to various Midrashic and liturgical texts]

FIRST EDITION. Title surrounded by florets. Wide margins ff. 182. Light stains, damp-wrinkled, previous owners’ marks on title. 19th-century roan, rubbed. 4to Vinograd, Salonika 65

Salonika: Joseph Ya’avetz 1564-65

Est: $2,500 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,500

Important work containing textual emendations for the correct reading of the various Midrashic texts including Mechilta, Sifre, and Sifra. Includes lengthier notes and comments from a manuscript by R. Judah Gedaliah and other anonymous commentators. The final section, Seder Kedusha (ff. 173v.-181v.) corrects erroneous readings in the Sephardic Seder Tephillah, presenting alternate readings with halachic sources. The Midrashic scholar J. Theodor, greatly praised this work - see Ma'amar Al Peirush Bereishith Rabbah, in Tiphereth Yisrael, I. Lewy Festschrift (Breslau, 1911), pp. 132-54