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
Lot 247
MOSES BEN NACHMAN (NACHMANIDES/.
RaMBa”N). Peirush HaTorah [Commentary to the Pentateuch]
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.