Auction 13 · Lot 400

(RaSH”I). Peirush RaSH”I al Ha’Torah [commentary to the Pentateuch]

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $2,000

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author

SOLOMON BEN ISAAC

printer

Tobias Foa

Place

Sabbionetta

Publication

1557

Description

Title within historiated garlanded woodcut architectural arch. Printer’s device on verso of title (Yaari no. 21). Letters of opening words within decorative vignettes.

references

Vinograd, Sabbionetta 45; Mehlman 685; not in Adams

summary

Rashi’s commentary is an ideal example of the French school of exegetes. In it, there is a harmony between the two methods, the Derash and the Peshat. Rashi used many Agadic interpretations and knew the importance of the meaning of single words for the understanding of the verse and therefore endevored to explain each word where necessary, giving its grammatical derivation. As a teacher, he knew the pedagogic value of similes and examples which bring out the meaning more clearly and used them profusely. See: M. Waxman, vol. I, pp. 190-3.

ff. 124. Stained in places, neat marginal repairs to some leaves affecting a few letters in places, scattered notations in an Italian hand. Recent blind-tooled auburn gross-grain morocco, spine in compartments, slip-case. Sm. 4to

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