RaMBa”N). Peirush HaTorah [Commentary to the Pentateuch]

AUCTION 58 | Thursday, May 02nd, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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RaMBa”N). Peirush HaTorah [Commentary to the Pentateuch]

Title within decorative border with ornate floral design (design repeated on f.3); with poem containing the acrostic “Gershom.” Initial words within white-on-black decorative surround. 17th-century owner’s inscriptions. Wide margins. ff. 177. Trace foxed in places, final five leaves remargined and lightly frayed, opening leaf worn and laid down with small portion in facsimile. Modern vellum, slip-case. Folio. Vinograd, Pesaro 34; Mehlman 673.

Pesaro: Sons of Soncino 1513-14

Est: $13,000 - $15,000

The great scholarly bookseller David Frankel was wont to advise his clients that the Hebrew books printed in Pesaro are more scarce and to be more prized than many incunabula! After Rashi, the most popular commentary to the Pentateuch is undoubtedly that of Nachmanides (b. Gerona, 1194 - d. Eretz Israel, 1270). The fact that there were as many as three incunable editions (two within one year) of Nachmanides’s Commentary to the Pentateuch, attests to the immense popularity of the work. According to R. Menachem Eisenstadt in the introduction to his super-commentary, this Pesaro edition is textually the most accurate.