(Attributed to). Biuri’m [super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch]

AUCTION 53 | Thursday, December 08th, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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SHAPIRO, NATHAN BEN SHIMSHON

(Attributed to). Biuri’m [super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch]

FIRST EDITION. Title within a garlanded architectural arch. Opening words within a decorative woodcut. Woodcut illustration of the ladder of Jacob on f. 28; the Temple candelabra on f. 85; eight of the spies carrying a large bunch of grapes on verso of f. 131; map of Biblical Israel on verso of f. 150. Signatures and stamps of previous owners including Gershon ben Uri David HaKohen, Yisrael Bachrach and Elazar Nathan Kahana Spira of Jerusalem. ff.180. ), slight marginal worming repaired. Modern calf backed, marbled boards. 8vo Vinograd, Venice 778; Mehlman 609; not in Adams

Venice: Matteo Zannetti (for Bernardo Justinian) 1593

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $1,300

This book was banned in the districts of Lublin and Cracow as the author’s son stated that it was falsely attributed to his father in order to promote sales. He later published his father’s actual writings on the Pentateuch and Rashi under the name Imrei Shepher in Cracow and Lublin in 1597. See E. Katzman, Yeshurun, Vol. XIII I; P. Krieger, Parshandatha (2005) 366. Regarding the map, cf. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land, W.10.