Beith Yehudah [compilation of supplementary Aggadoth, with commentary]

AUCTION 55 | Thursday, June 21st, 2012 at 1:00

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Lot 190

MODENA, JUDAH ARYEH (LEONE) DA.

Beith Yehudah [compilation of supplementary Aggadoth, with commentary]

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Wide-margined copy. ff. 37, (1), 48, (4). Title supplied from a slightly shorter copy, light wear, small marginal tear on f. 2 not affecting text, marginal note in an Italian hand on f. 37b (tractate Zevachim), slight marginal worming on final leaves. Modern calf. Folio. Vinograd, Venice 1207.

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $300

Modena’s additional collection of Aggadoth was incorporated in later editions of the Ein Ya’akov. His original comments are prefaced by “Amar Ha-Boneh” (the builder states). Modena was a most enigmatic figure: rabbi, scholar and by his own admission a gambler who tried to get rid of this vice. His literary virtuosity continues to stimulate research and “serves as a prism of his society and culture”. See D. Malkiel (Ed.), The Lion Shall Roar: Leon Modena and His World (2003).