Pesikta Zutratha. [Midrash Lekach Tov to the Books of Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy]

AUCTION 66 | Thursday, November 19th, 2015 at 1:00

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Pesikta Zutratha. [Midrash Lekach Tov to the Books of Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy]

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Scattered marginalia. ff. 93. Some staining, final leaves remargined. Modern calf. Folio. Vinograd, Venice, 269; Haberman, Bomberg 187; Adams T- 766.

Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1546

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $650

Inscription on verso of title praises an interpretation in this work written by a son of R. Yitzchak Atzban. Members of this Moroccan rabbinic family served in Meknes and Fez; the most prominent was R. Mordechai b. Yitzchak Atzban (author of Zoveach Todah). See D. Sutton, Aleppo, City of Scholars (2005) pp. 141-42.