Sepher Ha’Aruch [Talmudic dictionary]

AUCTION 70 | Thursday, September 22nd, 2016 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autographed Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 175

NATHAN BEN YECHIEL OF ROME.

Sepher Ha’Aruch [Talmudic dictionary]

Second Edition. Title within decorative Soncino border. Previous owner’s inscriptions: Presented to Rabbi Yechezkel Banet upon a rabbinic appointment. Also owned by R. Alexander Zushye Klein of Toltshava who received it in trade for other books from Yisrael Meir Gross of Kemetsch, in 1876. ff. 196. Complete, but mispaginated (as all copies). Lightly stained, small tear to lower corner of title and first leaf affecting decoration and one word, worming in places, corners frayed. Later boards, upper cover defective. Folio. Vinograd, Pesaro 44.

(Pesaro): Gershom Soncino 1517

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,250

Nathan’s Aruch is important for its many citations of Gaonic sources, descriptions of Jewish customs, and citations of long-lost Midrashim. See Heller, The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book (2004) pp. 104-5. The previous owner, Rabbi Yechezkel Banet, was the son-in-law of R. Abraham Yitzchak Glick of Toltshava and grandson R. Shlomo Ganzfried, the author of Kitzur Shulchan Aruch. See P. Z. Schwartz, Shem HaGedolim Me’Eretz Hagar (1913) Vol. I, p. 86 no. 112.