Eliyahu Mizrachi [super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch]

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $4,000

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author

MIZRACHI, ELIJAH

printer

Bragadin

Place

Venice

Publication

1574

Description

Title with printer’s mark. Map of Eretz Israel on f. 235a. WITH IMPORTANT, LENGTHY, EXTENSIVE MARGINAL NOTES THROUGHOUT

references

Vinograd, Venice 592; E. & G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land (1992), pp.19-21

summary

THE SCHOLARLY NOTES ARE WRITTEN IN A CLEAR, LATE 16TH-EARLY 17TH CENTURY ASCHKENAZIC HAND. THEY BEAR A REMARKABLE RESEMBLANCE TO THE HANDWRITTEN MARGINAL NOTES BY A DISCIPLE OF THE MAHRA”L OF PRAGUE ON THE MORDECHAI (Sold Kestenbaum & Company, 4th December, 2003, Lot 179)

ff. 320. Title repaired affecting one letter. f. 32 written in a neat hand plus a loose printed f. 32 from another copy. Some dampstaining, previous owners inscription on title, Binyamin ben Yitzchak Bachrach Aschkenazi. Recent calf. Folio

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