Auction 7 · Lot 289

Pirush Hatorah [commentary to the Pentateuch]

Estimate: $20,000–$25,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

BACHIAH BEN ASHER

printer

Azriel b. Joseph Aschkenazi Gunzenhauser, 3rd July

Place

Naples

Publication

1492

Description

Edited by Solomon Bonfoi Zarfati. Two divisional titles each within ornate historiated woodcut borders (borrowed from the Neapolitan press of Francesco del Tuppo)

references

Vinograd, Naples 21; Mehlman 2; Offenberg 8; Freimann-Marx, Thesaurus A-74; Goff Heb-6; Iakerson, Ohel Hayim IN-4

summary

Second incunable edition. Of the first edition, printed just a few months earlier, only fragments are extant, found in Cincinnati (HUCL), New York (JTSL) and Jerusalem (Schocken). See Offenberg no. 7 Regarding the suggestion that it was the printer Gunzenhauser’s brother-in-law, Moses b. Isaac, who was the engraver who designed the decorative woodcuts found in this Naples edition, see A. Marx, Jewish Quarterly Review (1920-1) Vol. XI p.113. See also J. Bloch, Hebrew Printing in Naples (reprinted 1976) p.21. Title illustrated EJ, IV col.104

ff. ** (of **), ff. *** supplied in manuscript in an old Yemenite hand. Marginal wear and light stains with occasional loss of few letters. Modern tan diced morocco, spine in compartments

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