Sepher Iyov im Peirush [commentary to Book of Job with text]

Estimate: $1,500–$2,000
Hammer price: $2,400

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author

ISAAC BEN SOLOMON HAKOHEN

printer

Eliezer Soncino

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1545

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title within typographic border. ff. (146). Signatures and inscriptions of previous owners in Italian hands on the title, including Shimshon Chaim Trani, Daniel di Castillo and others, according to one inscription the writer apparently acquired the book from the "hands of the author."

references

[Vinograd, Const. 185; Yaari, Const. 139 (this copy variant B); not in Adams].

summary

In his introduction, the author notes he followed the methodology of The Me’iri (R. Menahem Me’iri of Perpignan) (1249-1316). Isaac HaKohen's work is an inavaluable reference, for unlike Meiri’s commentaries to Proverbs and Psalms, his commentary to the Book of Job did not survive the passage of time Isaac ben Solomon Hakohen lived in Constantinople in the 16th-century. Besides his commentary to Job, he composed a commentarty to the Ethics of the Fathers. See JE, vol. VI, col. 633

Some staining and slight marginal worming, two leaves apparently inserted from a shorter copy. Later half-calf. 4to.

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