(RaDa"K). Sepher Tehillim. Commentary on Psalms (Text of Psalms with commentary by Rabbi David Kimchi

Estimate

$2,000–$3,000

Hammer price

$4,000

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author

KIMCHI, DAVID.

printer

Paulus Fagius

Place

Isny

Publication

1542

Description

Hebrew and Latin marginalia. Complete with the scarce 2-leaf addendum "Teshuvoth HaRaDa"K LeNotzrim"

references

Vinograd, Isny 18: Haberman, Perakim Beoldoth HaMadpisim Ha'Ivrim (1978), p. 163, no. 8

summary

The grammarian and Biblical exegete R. David Kimchi (1160?-1235?), known in Latin as Maistre Petit, was a native of Narbonne. Kimchi, as his father Joseph before him, excelled as a polemicist and his commentary to Psalms devotes several passages to Christian-Jewish polemics. The Teshuvoth HaRaDa"K LeNotzrim ("Responses to the Christians"), published as an addendum in very few copies copies, is an extract of these passages from the commentary to Psalms. See Frank Talmage, Apples of Gold in Settings of Silver (Toronto, 1999), p. 213; see also D. Berger, The Jewish-Christian Debate in the High Middle Ages (1979)

ff. 108, (2). Title and final two leaves remargined. Waterstained, new endpapers. Contemporary vellum, rubbed. Folio

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