Auction 20 · Lot 8
Hebrew. PROPHETS & HAGIOGRAPHIA). With commentary Ayalah Sheluchah by NAPHTALI HERTZ ALTSCHULER. Supplemented with a Judeo-German glossary
- Estimate
- $6,000–$8,000
- Hammer price
- $6,000
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(BIBLE
printer
Isaac ben Aaron Prostitz
Place
Cracow
Publication
c. 1593-5
Description
FIRST EDITION WITH COMMENTARY. Three parts in one volume. Two divisional titles within woodcut architectural borders. Opening words within woodcut frames
references
Vinograd, Cracow 175; Mehlman 62; not in Adams; Y. Yudlov, in Kiryat Sepher, Vol. 54, (1979), pp. 827-8
summary
VERY RARE. ONLY EDITION
Naphtali Hertz Altschuler lived principally in Lublin, Mezhiritch, and Zhitomir. His Aggadic commentary to the Prophets and Hagiographa known as Ayalah Sheluchah - “Swift as a Deer” (see Gen. XLIX: 21) - a literary reference to his own name.
In the preface to this commentary, the Author pays tribute to his mentor, Bendict ben Joseph Axelrod (Author of Avodath Halevi) who was a source for Altschuler’s novellae, as well as teachings he recorded from his travels in through German Lands and his encounters with teachers who maintained a Spanish tradition of exegisis.
The Five Scrolls apparently, were not included in Altschuler’s commentary
Part I: ff.108 (of 121), lacking ff.1-2,7-9,13,17,27-30,42 and 66. Mispaginated. Part II: 142; 52. Part III: ff. 43 (of 50), lacking 2-3,5,18,27-8,50; ff. 20 (of 24), lacking 1-2,5-6; ff. 27; ff.15; ff. 41 (of 45), lacking 29-30,37-38. Browned and with marginal repairs in places, scattered marginalia, some marginal worming on last few leaves. Later sheep-backed patterned boards, worn. Folio
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