(Attributed to). Biuri’m [super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch]

SHAPIRO, NATHAN BEN SHIMSHON

Matteo Zannetti (for Bernardo Justinian)

Venice

1593

FIRST EDITION. Title within a garlanded architectural arch. Opening words within a decorative woodcut. Woodcut illustration of the ladder of Jacob on f. 28; the Temple candelabra on f. 85; eight of the spies carrying a large bunch of grapes on verso of f. 131; map of Biblical Israel on verso of f. 150. Signatures and stamps of previous owners including Gershon ben Uri David HaKohen, Yisrael Bachrach and Elazar Nathan Kahana Spira of Jerusalem.

Vinograd, Venice 778; Mehlman 609; not in Adams

This book was banned in the districts of Lublin and Cracow as the author’s son stated that it was falsely attributed to his father in order to promote sales. He later published his father’s actual writings on the Pentateuch and Rashi under the name Imrei Shepher in Cracow and Lublin in 1597. See E. Katzman, Yeshurun, Vol. XIII I; P. Krieger, Parshandatha (2005) 366. Regarding the map, cf. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land, W.10.