/RaMBa”N). Peirush HaTorah [commentary to the Pentateuch]

Estimate: $10,000–$15,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

MOSES BEN NACHMAN (NACHMANIDES.

printer

Joseph ben Jacob Aschkenazi Gunzenhausen

Place

Naples

Publication

1490

Description

Third Incunable Edition. Printed in rabbinic script without Nikud. Title within ornate historiated woodcut borders. Initial word within white-vine woodcut border.

references

Vinograd, Naples 10; Goff Heb-88; Freimann & Marx, Thesaurus A-65; Goldstein 57; Offenberg, 98

summary

Twenty eight books were printed at the short-lived Hebrew press at Naples which operated from 1480-1500. No doubt the Naples craftsmen would have continued to produce good books had not the Spanish Expulsion and the consequent political changes for Jews throughout Europe silenced the activity of the Neapolitan Hebrew presses. See Amram, The Makers of Hebrew books in Italy, pp.63-6

ff. 205 (of 244). ff. 1-8,10-11,40-56,67,131,228,235-243 and lower corners of ff. 227,229-234 all provided in facsimile. Lacking f.66(blank) and final blank. Variously washed and repaired. Modern morocco. Sm. folio

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