Toldoth Yitzchak [commentary to the Pentateuch]

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $650

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

KARO, ISAAC

printer

(Jacob Marcaria the Physician)

Place

Riva di Trento

Publication

1558

Description

Third edition. Previous owners’ signatures in Italian hands on title including Raphael Rovigo (see below). Wide margins

references

Vinograd, Riva 2

summary

According to some sources, Raphael Rovigo was the father of the famed kabbalist R. Abraham Rovigo of Modena (c.1650-1713,) who at the turn of the 18th-century settled in Eretz Israel, establishing there an important yeshivah. Gershom Scholem however, has Michael Rovigo as the father of R. Abraham Rovigo. See N.Z. Friedmann, Otzar Harabanim 17838, 815; EJ, Vol. XIV, cols. 355-56

ff. (2), 116. Stained in places, dampwrinkled, last page (blank) soiled, upper marginal hole on f.113 not affecting text. Later boards, gutter spilt, worn. Sm. 4to

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