Pirush Chamesh Megilloth [commentary to the Five Scrolls, Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Daniel, Ezra & Nachamiah and Chronicles]

Estimate: $1,200–$1,800
Hammer price: $3,500

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

author

YACHYAH, JOSEPH BEN DAVID IBN

printer

The Company of Jewish Silk Weavers

Place

Bologna

Publication

1538

Description

FIRST EDITION. Initial word of each chapter within decorative woodcut frame. Previous owner’s marks on title

references

Vinograd, Bologna 11; Adams J-337

summary

A Particularly Fine Wide-Margined Copy. Contains fascinating conjecture concerning the return of the Jews to the Land of Israel by the year 5700 (i.e. 1940) (viz. Book of Daniel, f.110r). The seventh of only nine books printed by the Jewish Silk Weaver’s Guild. See Amram, The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy, pp.232-35

ff. 40, 121 (ie. 122). Trace foxed. Later half-calf, rubbed. Folio

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