Arbah Ve’esrim - Minchath Shai

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $850

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author

(BIBLE, Hebrew).

printer

Raphael (Isaac) Chaim d’Italia the Physician

Place

Mantua

Publication

1742-44

Description

Commentary by Jedidiah Solomon Norzi, edited by Raphael Chaim Basila. 4 parts in one. Each part preceded by magnificent engraved frontispiece displaying 8 Biblical vignettes with printer’s device (Yaari no.121) at top, main and divisional titles in red and black * BOUND IN: Adolph Jellinek (Ed.) Jed. Sal. Norzi’s Einleitung...zu seinem Bibelcommentaar. Nach einer...Handschrift. (N.B. Friedman copy, with his stamps). 22pp. 8vo. Vienna, 1876

references

Darlow & Moule 5150; Vinograd, Mantua 397 (incorrect foliation)

summary

FIRST EDITION of this most important and comprehensive commentary to the Masorah, bears upon almost every word throughout the Bible in which the possibility for error or variant reading exist. Frontispiece carries an extraordinary depiction of the Deity as represented in the Prophet Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones (Chap.37). Such an illustration is most anomalous in a Jewish book. See C. Roth, Jewish Art (1961) cols.25-6 (illustrated)

ff.(4),142,(2),88,(2),98,(1),(2),54,51,(1),5, first 2ff. laid down, few ff. remargined and other neat paper repairs with minor loss, modern vellum, large 4to

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