(Editor). Margalioth Tovah [super-commentaries to Abraham ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch]

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $1,200

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author

ASCHKENAZI, YEKUTHIEL

printer

Isaac de Cordova

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1722

Description

FIRST EDITION. With commentaries: Ohel Yoseph, Mekor Chaim and Megilath Setarim (Motot). Astronomical plate at end (often lacking)

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1192

summary

FINE WIDE-MARGINED COPY. The editor states he gave this work the title Margalioth Tovah based upon the Midrash suggesting an exquisite pearl hung from the neck of the Biblical Abraham. He compares Abraham Ibn Ezra “in spirit” to the Abraham of the Bible

ff.(4),156,(1). Lightly stained. Contemporary blind-tooled calf with central cartouche over wooden boards, rubbed and chipped. Tall folio

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