Yefeh Mareh [on the Aggadic portions of the Jerusalem Talmud]

AUCTION 54 | Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 at 1:00

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Lot 171

JAFFE, SAMUEL BEN ISAAC ASCHKENAZI.

Yefeh Mareh [on the Aggadic portions of the Jerusalem Talmud]

Second edition. ff. 331. Previous owner’s signature and inscription on title in an Italian hand, censor’s signature on final page, slight worming on title and first two leaves, hole on bottom of final leaf affecting some words of the index. Old tooled calf. Folio. Vinograd, Venice 742; Habermann, di Gara 115; Adams T-112.

Venice: Asher Parenzo for Giovanni di Gara 1590

Est: $800 - $1,000

PRICE REALIZED $800

R. Samuel Jaffe (d. late 16th century), was spiritual leader of the Aschkenazi community of Constantinople and is justly famous for his commentaries to the Midrash Rabbah: Yefeh To’ar and Yefeh Eynayim. As explained in the introduction to the present Yefeh Mareh, the author composed the commentary to the Aggadoth in the Jerusalem Talmud since they oftimes overlap the Aggadoth in Midrash Rabbah. In doing so, Jaffe trod virgin soil. As he points out in his introduction, the only previous attempt to unpack these treasures of the Jerusalem Talmud was the feeble effort by the author of Eyn Yaakov, R. Jacob ibn Habib. See EJ, Vol. IX col. 1266.