Pirush al HaTorah [commentary to the Pentateuch]. Edited by Samuel d’Archivolti.

Estimate: $800–$1,200
Hammer price: $1,000

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author

ABRABANEL, DON ISAAC

printer

Asher Parenzo for Giovanni di Gara

Place

Venice

Publication

1579

Description

FIRST EDITION. Printer’s device on title (Yaari, 18). On title and f. 2r. signature of former owner Yitzchak Shrem" (see below). Marginalia on ff. 55r and f. 82r.

references

Vinograd, Venice 641; Mehlman 626; Adams A-54

summary

R. Yitzchak Shrem of Aleppo, Syria (d. 1872), authored super-commentaries to ibn Ezra on the Bible: Be'er Yitzchak (Livorno, 1864) and Hadar Ezer (Izmir, 1865). In addition, he published a super-commentary to R. Elijah Mizrachi: Pi HaBe'er (Jerusalem, 1878). See D. Sutton, Aleppo: City of Scholars (2005), p.325.

ff. 425 (i.e. 424), (1). Title remargined, lightly stained. Later calf-backed boards. Folio

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