Sepher Ha’Aruch [Talmudic dictionary]

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $3,250

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

author

NATHAN BEN YECHIEL OF ROME.

printer

Gershom Soncino

Place

(Pesaro)

Publication

1517

Description

Second Edition. Title within decorative Soncino border. Previous owner’s inscriptions: Presented to Rabbi Yechezkel Banet upon a rabbinic appointment. Also owned by R. Alexander Zushye Klein of Toltshava who received it in trade for other books from Yisrael Meir Gross of Kemetsch, in 1876.

references

Vinograd, Pesaro 44.

summary

Nathan’s Aruch is important for its many citations of Gaonic sources, descriptions of Jewish customs, and citations of long-lost Midrashim. See Heller, The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book (2004) pp. 104-5. The previous owner, Rabbi Yechezkel Banet, was the son-in-law of R. Abraham Yitzchak Glick of Toltshava and grandson R. Shlomo Ganzfried, the author of Kitzur Shulchan Aruch. See P. Z. Schwartz, Shem HaGedolim Me’Eretz Hagar (1913) Vol. I, p. 86 no. 112.

ff. 196. Complete, but mispaginated (as all copies). Lightly stained, small tear to lower corner of title and first leaf affecting decoration and one word, worming in places, corners frayed. Later boards, upper cover defective. Folio.

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