PENTATEUCH, HAPHTAROTH AND FIVE SCROLLS). Chamishah Chumshei Torah

(BIBLE

Daniel Bomberg

Venice

1548

With Targum Onkeles and commentaries by Rashi, Ramba”n and FIRST EDITION of the super-commentary on Ramba”n by Isaac Aboab (with the text). Haphtaroth according to the Sephardic and Aschkenazic rite. Title within woodcut architectural arch. Divisional title (Haphtaroth). Marginal notes in Hebrew and Latin. Despited few stains, a fine, wide-margined copy

Vinograd, Venice 336; Habermann, Bomberg 211; Darlow & Moule (noted not listed) following no.5093; Adams B-1268

The popularity of Nachmanides’' commentary is evident from its many publications both separatey and as part of the Mikra'oth Gedoloth. Already in the fifteenth century, scholars saw the need for a super-commentary. R. Isaac Aboab (1433-1493), who, according to Alexander Marx, was the head of the greatest Torah Academy in Spain before the Expulsion (Studies in Jewish History and Booklore, pp.88-89, 431-2), composed one of the most important of these super-commentaries. It was first published independantly in Constantinople, 1525. There seems to have been a demand for it to be published together with the text of the Pentateuch and the Ramba"n so that both commentaries would be more intelligible and immediately accessible. The present volume constitutes the first publication of the text of both commentaries together, side by side, on the same page