Yosef Da’ath [super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch]

JOSEPH BEN ISSACHAR.

Gershom ben Bezalel Katz

Prague

1609

FIRST EDITION . Title within typographical border. Map of the Land of Israel together with other woodcut plates and text-illustrations striving to clarify errors in Rashi’s commentary by using an early manuscript text

Vinograd, Prague 168.

This important map of the Land of Israel is based on Mordechai Jaffe’s earlier effort that appeared in his Levushim (1590-1604). R. Joseph’s map however is more clearly defined, the mountains are easily visible and the cities are shown by towers and decorated with flags - an altogether sophisticated representation. See Z. Vilnay, Hamapah Ha’ivrit shel Eretz Yisrael (1968) p. 15 (illustrated)