Pentateuch). Arbah Ve’esrim - Minchath Shai.

AUCTION 69 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2016 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Holy Land Maps and Ceremonial Objects

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Lot 45

(BIBLE, Hebrew,

Pentateuch). Arbah Ve’esrim - Minchath Shai.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> With commentary by Jedidiah Solomon Norzi. Edited by Raphael Hayim Basila. Four parts bound in one volume. Each part preceded by magnificent engraved frontispiece displaying eight Biblical vignettes with printer’s device (Yaari no.121) at top. Main and divisional titles in red and black. Two tile with Hebrew printed over-slip. ff. (4), 142 (i.e. 138); * (2), 88; * (2), 98; * (2), 54, 51, (2), 5. Touch discolored. Contemporary sheep, rebacked, rubbed. Large 4to. Vinograd, Mantua 397; Darlow & Moule 5150.

Mantua: Raphael (Isaac) Chaim d’Italia the Physician 1742-44

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $3,000

First edition of this most important and comprehensive commentary to the Masorah, with significance for almost every word throughout the Bible in which the possibility for error or variant reading exists. Extraordinary frontispiece depicts the Deity as represented in the Prophet Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones (Chap. 37). The appearance of such an illustration is most anomalous in a Jewish book. See C. Roth, Jewish Art (1961) cols. 25-6 (illustrated).