Sepher Zevach Pesach. With commentary by Isaac Abrabanel

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $2,800

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

author

(HAGADAH)

printer

Marco Antonio Guistiniani

Place

Venice

Publication

1545

Description

Second edition. Printer’s device on title. On f.67r. there is a poem by a previous owner “Gershon son of Nathan,” whose name appears in acrostic at the start of each line. Contains a few marginalia in the form of corrigenda to text.

references

Yudlov 13; Yaari 10; Yerushalmi 18; Vinograd, Venice 238

summary

The First Hagadah Printed in Venice Abrabanel brought to his commentary on the Hagadah the same style that made famous his commentary on the Torah: a richly conceptual, if somewhat prolix approach. On page f. 1v. there is a poem by the author's son Judah Abrabanel (Leone Ebreo) in honor of his father Don Isaac Abrabanel.

ff. 67. Title and final page torn, stamps and signatures of previous owners. Pages have been cropped with no loss of text. Browned and dampstained in places. Later vellum. Sm. 4to

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