Simanim al Chidushei HaBachaya. * With (as issued): Naphtulei Elo-him Niphtalti.

TREVES, NAPHTALI HERTZ.

Chaim Schachor (Schwartz) and Partners

Hedderenheim

1546

FIRST EDITION.

Vinograd, Hedderenheim 1; Mehlman 652; Deinard, Atikoth Yehudah p.30; not in Adams

First of only two Hebrew books printed in this town near Frankfurt a/Main. The printer began his career at the Kohen printing establishment in Prague, where he produced almost all the woodcut illustrations for the famous Prague Hagadah of 1526. See A.M. Haberman, Kiryat Sepher, Vol. XXXI (1955-56) pp.483-500. The present work is Kabbalistic super-commentary and index to Bachaya b. Asher’s commentary to the Pentateuch. The introduction contains important genealogical information about the Treves family. For an excellent study on the Kabbalistic sources of R. Bachaya, see E. Gottlieb, Mekorotav shel R. Bachaya…Be’kitvei R. Yoseph Gikatilla in: Bar Ilan University Annual Vol. I (1969), pp. 306-26; and Yitzchak Sagi Nahor, Mekorot R. Bachaya Be’kitvei Ha’mekubalim in: Bar Ilan University Annual, Samuel Bialoblocki Memorial Volume (1964) pp. 215-50.