Auction 6 · Lot 30

PENTATEUCH, HAPHTAROTH AND FIVE SCROLLS). Chamishah Chumashei Torah.

Estimate: $20,000–$25,000
Hammer price: $22,000

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author

(BIBLE, Hebrew.

printer

Hans Jakob Hanau

Place

Hanau

Publication

1611-4

Description

Printed on Yellow Paper. Prepared by Chaim Vidal, Son-in-Law of Isaiah Horowitz (The Shelo”H Hakodosh). With commentary of Rash”i, Targums (3) and Ba’al Haturim. With commentaries on the Targums by David Shabarshan and Abraham b. David of Ostrog (“Kur Lezahav”) - Only Edition of These Two Commentaries.

references

Vinograd, Hanau 10; Mehlman 49 (incomplete); St. Cat. Bodl. 403

summary

Remarkably Significant Edition. Most Textually accurate Printed Edition of Rash”I. Edited by Chaim Vidal, Son-in-Law of Isaiah Horowitz (The Shelo”h Hakodosh), Using His Father-in-Law’s Personal Annotated Chumash-Rash”i. Excessively Scarce. The Shelo”h was known to have been particularly exacting regarding textual accuracy (see verso of title-page). This volume, printed in the Shelo”h’s life-time and prepared by his son-in-law could thus only have passed the most stringent textual precision by one of the era’s most brilliant scholars.

ff.168,194. Opening leaf laid to size, lower portions of following 6 leaves expertly repaired with loss supplied in facsimile, stained. Modern boards. Thick 8vo

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