Ho’el Moshe Be’er...Bamidbar [super-commentary to Abraham ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch]

CRÉMIEU, MOÏSE

de Pontier

Aix en Provence

1836

Volume IV (only, of 7) Numbers. ONE OF ONLY 25 COPIES. Uncut and partially unopened. A small signature appearing in the top margin of the title page may be Cremieu's

Vinograd, Aix 12; Wiener 3060 (both erroneously paginated)

One of Only 25 Copies Printed. This book includes Cremieu's own commentary on Ibn Ezra's commentary on the the Book of Numbers. The book was published in only 25 copies. Naphtali ben Benachem devotes a chapter (pages 164-172) to Ho’el Moshe Be'er in his own work BeSha'arei Sepher (1967), where he tells of his search of many years for a copy of this book, providing details, as well, about Hoil Moshe Be'er and its author. The volume offered here is so rare that the German Encyclopaeda Judaica (volume 5, column 603) wonders if it might never have been published. See H. Cremieux, Arch. Israelites I, 372, 418; Gallia Judaica [Seite/page] 263; Catalogus Bodl., Nr. 6451 column 1789; Fuerst Bibl. Jud. I, 192; Benjacob 135, Nr. 255; A. Rhine, JE IV, 348