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

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

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author

BENVENISTE, MEIR.

printer

Joseph Ya’avetz

Place

Salonika

Publication

1564-5

Description

FIRST EDITION. Title surrounded by florets. A wide-margined copy.

references

Vinograd, Salonika 65.

summary

Important work containing emendations for the correct readings of 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 along with scholarly halachic sources.

ff. 182. Signatures, stamp and small tear on title-page, trace wormed and with few stains in places, otherwise a clean copy. Modern full vellum. 4to.

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