Pirush al Nevi’im Acharonim [commentary to the Later Prophets]

ABRABANEL, DON ISAAC

(Immanuel Benveniste)

Amsterdam

1641-42

Commendatory poem by Judah Abrabanel, son of the author on verso of title. Second edition. Title within architectural border. With rare additional title-page in Latin. Signatures of previous owner on the title: “Yoseph Salnik,” grandson of the author of Responsa Masath Binyamin. Scattered marginalia

Vinograd, Amsterdam 56; St. Cat. Bodl. 479; Zedner p. 122; Roest p. 193; Fuks, Amsterdam 204

THIS COPY WITH THE SCARCE LATIN TITLE-PAGE DATED 1642 - NOT IN THE STEINSCHNEIDER, ZEDNER OR ROEST COPIES. Fuks (no. 204) writes, "Roest states that the copy of the Rosenthal Collection lacks the Latin title-page which he reproduces...He evidently knew a copy with both Lat. and Heb. title-pp. Neither Steinschneider nor Zedner list copies with Lat. title-pp." In the unusual inscription, the previous owner thanks God he "merited to buy this holy, delightful book written by my relative the Gaon of blessed memory. For I too am descended from King David as I am a grandson of the Gaon R. Shlomo Luria." Also cited are other renowned ancestral personalities including the Mahara”m of Padua