Auction 47 · Lot 55

Bi'ur al HaTorah [Kabbalistic commentary to the Pentateuch]

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $750

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author

BACHIAH BEN ASHER.

printer

Giovanni dei Farri-Cornelio Adelkind

Place

Venice

Publication

1544

Description

In first words of each book, letters white within individual floriated vignettes. On verso of title, inscriptions of former owners in Temanic script. Numerous rabbinic marginalia

references

Vinograd, Venice 216; Habermann, Adelkind 4

summary

Encyclopedic work utilizing wide variety of sources. Especially noteworthy are the Kabbalistic references as well as Midrashic interpretations. R. Bachiah was well versed in this literature and brings forth passages from lost Midrashim. For an excellent work on the Kabbalistic sources of R. Bachiah, see E. Gottlieb, "Mekorotav shel R. Bachiah...be-Kitvei R. Yosef Gikatilla" in Bar Ilan University Annual, Vol. I (1969), pp. 306-26; and idem, "R. Yitzchak Sagi Nahor VeTalmidav - Mekorot R. Bachiah B’Kitvei HaMekubalim" in Bar Ilan University Annual, Samuel Bialoblocki Memorial Volume (1964) pp. 215-250

ff. 233 (i.e.243). Browned and stained, crude tape repairs, occasional tears, corners rounded. Modern vellum-backed boards. Folio

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