Pesikta Zutratha. [Midrash Lekach Tov to the Books of Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy]

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

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author

TUVIAH BEN ELIEZER

printer

Daniel Bomberg

Place

Venice

Publication

1546

Description

FIRST EDITION. Scattered marginalia.

references

Vinograd, Venice, 269; Haberman, Bomberg 187; Adams T- 766.

summary

Inscription on verso of title praises an interpretation in this work written by a son of R. Yitzchak Atzban. Members of this Moroccan rabbinic family served in Meknes and Fez; the most prominent was R. Mordechai b. Yitzchak Atzban (author of Zoveach Todah). See D. Sutton, Aleppo, City of Scholars (2005) pp. 141-42.

ff. 93. Some staining, final leaves remargined. Modern calf. Folio.

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