Pirush HaTorah VeChamesh Megiloth [commentary to the Pentateuch and Five Scrolls]

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

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author

SOLOMON BEN ISAAC (RASH’I)

printer

Chaim Schwarz

Place

Augsburg

Publication

1533

Description

Second issue (variant). Opening of each Book decorated with Zodiacal woodcuts.

references

Vinograd, Augsburg 5; M.N. Rosenfeld, Augsburg 41.

summary

Complete copies of this essential text are almost unknown. The Augsburg printer, Chaim (Shachor) Schwarz was among the pioneers of Hebrew printing outside of Italy. He had previously worked in Prague and was responsible for the issue of the famed Prague Hagadah of 1526.

ff. 182 (of 191). Supplied in facsimile: ff. 1, 9, 185-191. Trimmed, browned and stained, wormed with loss of text in places. Modern crushed morocco with gilt dentelles. Sm. 4to.

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