Eliyahu Mizrachi [super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch]

Estimate: $1,800–$2,200
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

MIZRACHI, ELIJAH

printer

Daniel Bomberg

Place

Venice

Publication

1545

Description

Second Edition. Title within woodcut architectural border. Map of Eretz Israel on verso f.280v. (cf. E. & G. Wajntraub, no.W,8)

references

Vinograd, Venice 235; Habermann, Bomberg 175; Adams M-1517

summary

Elijah Mizrachi’s map of Eretz Israel is the first printed map of the Holy Land. It first appeared in the Venice 1523 edition of his super-commentary. Although primitively drawn, it describes the borders of Eretz Israel and the places mentioned in Deuteronomy. See: E. & G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land (1992), pp.19-21. Given the rigid gender politics of the time, it is surprisng to find such a scholarly text with an ownership signature of a woman

ff. 320. Some staining in places, scattered marginal notes, extensive marginal note on f. 71a in a Sephardic hand, very slight worming to last few leaves, some marginal repair to title and some leaves, previous owners inscriptions on title in Ashkenazic hands, unusual woman's signaure on verso of title "Frumet Bath ..Yisrael Margolioth of Cracow." Recent morrocco-backed boards. Folio

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