Auction 35 · Lot 168
Toldoth Yitzchak
- Estimate
- $1,500–$2,000
- Hammer price
- $1,500
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
KARO, ISAAC BEN JOSEPH
printer
(Jacob Marcaria the Physician)
Place
Riva di Trento
Publication
1558
Description
Third edition. Initial words of title and sectional headings historiated
references
Vinograd, Riva 2
summary
A concisely written commentary to the Pentateuch which includes literal, homiletical, kabbalistic and philosophical interpretations. The author, Isaac ben Joseph Karo (not to be confused with his celebrated nephew, R. Joseph Karo), was a native of Toledo and a man of very wide culture. Several years before the Spanish Expulsion in 1492, Isaac Karo moved his yeshivah to Portugal, but following the the subsequent expulsion of the Jews from Portugal in 1497, Karo fled to Turkey. He entered the rabbinate of Constantinople, where Toldoth Yitzchak was first published in 1518. See EJ, V col. 193
ff. (2), 116, scattered light stains. Previous owners’ signatures, ex-libris and stamps including Yisrael ben HaGaon Hertz Emden. Later half calf. Sm. 4to
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