Minchah Belulah [commentary on the Pentateuch]
AUCTION 65 |
Thursday, June 25th,
2015 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Objects and Graphic Art
Lot 108
RAPA, ABRAHAM MENACHEM BEN JACOB HAKOHEN OF PORTO.
Minchah Belulah [commentary on the Pentateuch]
Verona: Francesco dalle Donne 1594
Est: $800 - $1,200
PRICE REALIZED $1,550
Whilst a young man, the author was apprenticed as a proof-reader at the House of Bragadin in Venice. There he witnessed the violent burning of the Talmud pursuant to the Papal Bull of 1553. On f. 203r of the present work, Rapaport records the tragic event and notes his decision to commemorate its anniversary as a personal fast-day for the rest of his life. See A. Yaari, Sereiphath HaTalmud Be’Italia in: Mechkarei Sepher (1958) pp. 198-233; M.J. Heller, The Sixteenth-Century Hebrew Book, Vol. II (2004) pp. 828-9.