(BIBLE Hebrew). BAMIDBAR, DEVARIM, FIVE SCROLLS AND HAFTAROTH.

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

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

printer

Hertz Levi Rofe and Son-in-law

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1749

Description

Including Targum Onkelos, Rashi and Devek Tov [super-commentary to Rashi] by Shimon Halevi Auschenburg. Large-paper copy with extra wide margins. Title within elaborately decorated architectural pillars. Extensive manuscript comments in a neat Ashkenazic hand on front flyleaf, f. 241b, 254a, 264b and ff. 292-95 (see below).

references

Vinograd Amsterdam 1620.

summary

The manuscript comments were copied from Igroth Yashar by R. Isaac Samuel Reggio (1784-1855), published in Vienna, 1834-36. They contain Bible comments and a translation in Hebrew by Reggio of a chapter of Ma’amar al Matzav HaYehudim by Simcha Luzzatto. The marginal notes to Eichah contain the commentary of Joseph ibn Kaspi and were also taken from Igroth Yashar.

ff. (1). 179-323, 58. Signature of previous owner on title dated 1779, title mounted. Ex-library, title laid down Later boards, worn, spine removed. Large 4to.

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