Peirush Rash’i al Masechta Avoth [commentary to Ethics of the Father]. Attributed to Solomon ben Isaac (Rash’i).

AUCTION 68 | Thursday, April 07th, 2016 at 1:00

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Peirush Rash’i al Masechta Avoth [commentary to Ethics of the Father]. Attributed to Solomon ben Isaac (Rash’i).

Hebrew manuscript, written in an Italian semi-cursive hand on paper. The final page in a later hand contains Psalm 109. Signed by censor Giovanni Domenico Carretto (1618). ff. 18 (4 blank). Lightly discolored. Modern vellum, folding box. 4to.

Italy: Late 14th century

Est: $16,000 - $20,000

<<VARIANT EDITION OF THE COMMENTARY ON AVOTH ATTRIBUTED TO RASHI.>> This text varies significantly from the printed versions, and is shorter in length. For a complete analysis of this commentary and its attribution to Rashi, see A. Z. Kinstlicher, Tractate Avoth with Rashi’s Commentary [Hebrew] (Bnei Brak, 1992). The period in which this manuscript was written can be determined by the watermark on the paper (the bow/arrow), similar to Briquet 783-85 and dating to 1361. See H. Hirschfeld, Catalogue of the Hebrew Mss. of the Montefiore Library and of other Hebrew Mss. in the Jews’ College (London, 1904) no. 76. <<Provenance:>> Solomon Halberstam (shelf no. 256). Sotheby’s, Manuscripts from the Montefiore Endowment, 27th-28th October, 2004, Lot 69.