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

Estimate: $2,000–$2,500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

BENVENISTE, MEIR.

printer

Joseph Ya’avetz

Place

Salonika

Publication

1564-65

Description

FIRST EDITION

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 some lengthier notes and comments from a manuscript by R. Judah Gedaliah and other anonymous commentators. The final section, Seder Kedusha (pp. 173-81) corrects erroneous readings in the Sephardic Seder Tephilah, presenting alternates with scholarly halachic sources.

ff. 182. Some staining and mostly marginal worming, previous owner’s signature on title, marginal repair to extreme upper corner of final two leaves, marginalia on f. 31b. Modern calf. 4to.

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