BASS, SHABBETHAI. Sifthei Yesheinim [bibliography]

Estimate

$700–$1,000

Hammer price

Not recorded

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

author

(Luzzatto, Samuel David)

printer

David de Castro Tartas

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1678-80

Description

First Edition. Hebrew signature on title: "Haham Samuel David Luzzatto, Padua, 1835."

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 461; Mehlman, 1361; Fuks, Amsterdam 469

summary

The First Hebrew Bibliography. The Copy of the Shada'l, Samuel David Luzzatto (1800-65) Contains some 2,200 Hebraic titles including manuscripts. Shabbetai Bass’s (1641-1718) also composed Siphthei Chachamim, a highly popular super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch. Samuel David Luzzatto (1800-1865) was one of the last great representatives of the Italian tradition of Jewish learning which combined broad scholarship with rigid Orthodoxy. He taught at the Rabbinical College of Padua for almost four decades and remains celebrated due to his masterful Bible commentary. See EJ, Vol. XI, cols. 604-07

ff. 20, pp. 92, ff. 93-108. Title laid to size, trimmed and stained. Contemporary calf, worn. 4to

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