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Auction 5 · Lot 223

Hanikra Yelamedainu [Midrashic homilies to the Pentateuch]. Attributed to Tanchuma bar Abba

Estimate
$4,000–$6,000
Hammer price
Not recorded

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author

MIDRASH TANCHUMA

printer

Solomon ibn Mazel-Tov

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1520-22

Description

FIRST EDITION

references

Vinograd, Const. 123; Mehlman 177; Yaari, Const. 92; not in Adams

summary

Concerning the difficulties in placing the work in it’s correct literary context, see EJ, XV cols.793-6
ff.106 (of 108) Title page and f.108 provided in facsimile. f.16 rehinged with loss of text. closely shaved, with loss. Modern quarter-calf. 4to
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