(Editor). Margalioth Tovah [super-commentaries to Abraham ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch]

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: $400

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author

ASCHKENAZI, YEKUTHIEL

printer

Isaac de Cordova

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1722

Description

FIRST EDITION. With commentaries: Ohel Yoseph, Mekor Chaim and Megilath Setarim (Motot). Astronomical plate at end (often lacking). With significant scholarly marginalia.

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1192

summary

The editor states he gave this work the title Margalioth Tovah based upon the Midrash suggesting an exquisite pearl hung from the neck of the Biblical Abraham. He compares Abraham Ibn Ezra “in spirit” to the Abraham of the Bible. The marginalia in our copy display wide knowledge, with particular familiarity with the writings of the early Maskilim: Mendelssohn’s Be’ur, Naphtali Herz Homberg’s Otzar ha-Shorashim, etc.

ff.(4),156,(1). Dampstained and dampwrinkled, old tape repair to title and f.156. Contemporary blind-tooled calf with sun-likecartouche on both covers, spine starting. Folio

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