Hebrew. Ecclesiastes). Sepher Koheleth.

Estimate: $5,000–$7,000
Hammer price: $6,500

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

author

(BIBLE,

printer

[Joseph ben Jacob Aschkenazi Gunzenhauser]

Place

Naples

Publication

1487

Description

With commentary of Rashi. Biblical Text in square type with Nikud. Commentary in rabbinic type without Nikud. An early owner records on final page the birth of a son in 1540. The printer omitted a portion of chap. V, verses 17-18, which has been supplied in an old Italian hand: “ki hu chelko: gam kol ha-adam asher nathan lo Ha’Elo-him” (f.4v). A Wide-Margined Copy.

references

Vinograd, Naples 2; Goff Heb-26; Thes. A-59; Offenberg 46; BMC XIII, p. 51; Iakerson 46.

summary

From the FIRST EDITION OF KETHUVIM IN HEBREW. A freestanding text of Koheleth. See Treasures of the Valmadonna Trust Library - Otzroth Ya’akov, Incunables no. 33.

Complete in ff. 10. Lightly stained, opening leaf remargined, few neat repairs, corners rounded. Modern blind-tooled and paneled morocco. Housed in custom slip-case. Sm. folio.

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