Sepher Zevach Pesach

Estimate

$12,000–$15,000

Hammer price

$13,000

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

author

(HAGADAH).

printer

Kalonymus b. Mordecai Jaffe

Place

Bistrowitz

Publication

1592

Description

With commentary by Isaac Abrabanel. Inscriptions on title

references

Yudlov 33; Yaari 25; Mehlman 369

summary

THE FIRST HAGADAH PRINTED IN EASTERN EUROPE. See Yerushalmi 33 The reason as to why this book was printed in this rather obscure village, (- indeed it was the first and remained the only Hebrew book to be printed there-) is most intriguingly suggested by Yerushalmi (op. cit.) The printer fled to Bistrowitz from nearby Lublin in order to escape the plague. This is suggested by the Biblical verse chosen for the chronogram on the title-page: “And he stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stayed.” (Numbers 17:13)

ff. 60, (4). Misbound: ff. 29-32, 54-5 (though all complete). Title cropped with some loss, stained, tear on f.53 repaired. Modern calf. 4to

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