Pirush Chamesh Megiloth [commentary to the Five Scrolls, Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Daniel, Ezra & Nehemiah and Chronicles]

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

YACHYA, JOSEPH BEN DAVID IBN.

printer

The Company of Jewish Silk Weavers

Place

Bologna

Publication

1538

Description

FIRST EDITION . Initial word of each chapter within decorative woodcut frame. Wide-margined copy.

references

Vinograd, Bologna 11; Adams J-337

ff. 40, 121 (i.e. 122). Title supplied in facsimile, stained in places, few leaves supplied from another, shorter copy. A few sensitive passages struck by censor. Modern gilt-tooled calf, scuffed. Folio.

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