Oth Emeth [annotations and emendations to various Midrashic and liturgical texts]

Estimate

$2,500–$3,000

Hammer price

$2,500

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author

BENVENISTE, MEIR.

printer

Joseph Ya’avetz

Place

Salonika

Publication

1564-65

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title surrounded by florets. Wide margins

references

Vinograd, Salonika 65

summary

Important work containing textual emendations for the correct reading of the various Midrashic texts including Mechilta, Sifre, and Sifra. Includes lengthier notes and comments from a manuscript by R. Judah Gedaliah and other anonymous commentators. The final section, Seder Kedusha (ff. 173v.-181v.) corrects erroneous readings in the Sephardic Seder Tephillah, presenting alternate readings with halachic sources. The Midrashic scholar J. Theodor, greatly praised this work - see Ma'amar Al Peirush Bereishith Rabbah, in Tiphereth Yisrael, I. Lewy Festschrift (Breslau, 1911), pp. 132-54

ff. 182. Light stains, damp-wrinkled, previous owners’ marks on title. 19th-century roan, rubbed. 4to

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