Pirush HaTorah... (Rimzei Ba’al HaTurim)

AUCTION 51 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Books, Part II

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Lot 226

JACOB BEN ASHER

Pirush HaTorah... (Rimzei Ba’al HaTurim)

Second edition. Wide margins ff. 65, (1). Some staining in places, few leaves wormed along extreme upper margin not affecting text, censors' signatures and inscriptions at end, small paper repair on title. Later boards, loose, rubbed. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Venice 228; Habermann, Adelkind 3

Venice: J. de Ferri 1544

Est: $1,200 - $1,500

This famed exegesis first appeared in Constantinople in 1514 - although bibliographers have taken note of an earlier, probably phantom edition, 14 years prior. It consists of Masoretic calculations and hermeneutical interpretations, i.e. Gematria and Notarikon. It is a standard component of all editions of the Pentateuch that are accompanied by the Rabbinic commentaries