Oth Emeth [annotations and emendations to various Midrashic and liturgical texts]

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Lot 58

BENVENISTE, MEIR.

Oth Emeth [annotations and emendations to various Midrashic and liturgical texts]

<<FIRST EDITION>> ff. 182. Some staining and mostly marginal worming, previous owner’s signature on title, marginal repair to extreme upper corner of final two leaves, marginalia on f. 31b. Modern calf. 4to. Vinograd, Salonika 65.

Salonika: Joseph Ya’avetz 1564-65

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

Important work containing textual emendations for the correct reading of the various Midrashic texts including Mechilta, Sifre, and Sifra. Includes some lengthier notes and comments from a manuscript by R. Judah Gedaliah and other anonymous commentators. The final section, Seder Kedusha (pp. 173-81) corrects erroneous readings in the Sephardic Seder Tephilah, presenting alternates with scholarly halachic sources.