Sepher Mateh Aharon. With commentary by Aaron Darshan Te'omim

Estimate

$800–$1,200

Hammer price

Not recorded

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

author

(HAGADAH)

printer

n.p

Place

Frankfurt a/Main

Publication

1710

Description

Second edition. 14 fine copper-plate engravings after the 1695 Amsterdam Hagadah. TItle within ornate 4-part historiated border. With endorsement of R. Naftali Katz of Frankfurt.

references

Yudlov 113; Yaari 71; Vinograd, Frankfurt a/Main 255

summary

Rabbi Aaron Te'omim served as a preacher in Prague (1659-1670), and Rabbi in Worms (1670-1687) and Cracow (1690). He died a martyrs death in 1690. No less an authority than Rabbi Ya'ir Hayim Bacharach, author of Responsa Chavoth Ya'ir, accused Te'omim of hiding sources (but not outright plagiarism): “In many places he [Te'omim] attributes to 'commentators' without bothering to credit the author.” Bacharach, Hakdamath Sepher Mateh Aharon, p. 353 in: Ha-Misderonah I (1885), pp. 348-364. See M. Weintraub's introduction to the Diskin facsimile edition; Hayim Michael, Or ha-Hayim (Jerusalem, 1965), pp. 145-6; EJ IV, col. 48; Bezalel Naor, Haggadah Aviv ha-'Olam (Spring Valley, 2004), Appendix IV.

ff.(2), 2-44. Title and several pages laid to size. Browned and stained in usual places. Modern boards. Folio

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