With Matnoth Kehunah [commentary to Exodus Rabbah-Deuteronomy Rabbah and Chamesh Megiloth Rabbah] by Issachar Baer ben Naphtali Katz of Szczebrzesyn (Shebreshin).

MIDRASH RABBAH

Abraham Joseph Bat-Sheva

Salonika

1594

FIRST EDITION of Matnoth Kehunah. Separate title for Midrash Chamesh Megiloth Rabbata. On final page, signature of R. Abraham Joseph Solomon Graziano, "Is"h ge"r anochi ba-aretz" and replete with Graziano's detailed marginalia. Uncut copy.

Vinograd, Salonika 128; Mehlman, Genuzoth Sepharim 46

THE ISH-GER COPY REPLETE WITH HIS MARGINAL NOTES. Abraham Joseph Solomon Graziano (d. 1684), the Rabbi of Modena, was a noted halachic scholar, bibliophile and poet. (See S. Baron, "Teshuvah…me-eth R. Abraham Graziano" in Studies in Memory of A.S. Freidus (1929), pp. 122-37; A. J. Karp, From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress, pp. 155-6). The commentary Matnoth Kehunah to Genesis Rabbah (total ff.40) was published as a separate entity the following year, 1595 (see Mehlman 892)