Megilath Setarim [super-commentary to Abraham ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch]

MOTOT, SAMUEL IBN.

Alvise Bragadin

Venice

1554

FIRST EDITION. Marginalia

Vinograd, Venice 465; Mehlman 667; Adams S-240

Samuel ben Sa'adia ibn Motot lived in Guadalajara, Spain in the second half of the 14th-century. Ibn Motot's super-commentary displays a profound knowledge of Talmud, Kabbalah and philosophy. Unlike most of the super-commentaries to Ibn Ezra, Motot is not one to be modest when he feels ibn Ezra's novellae step beyond the bounds of rabbinic propriety (see f.46r.) According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, (Vol. IX, p. 99) "The work soon became very rare." the condition descrip, needs to read over the rest.