Pirush Hatorah [commentary to the Pentateuch]. Sepher Devarim-Deuteronomy

Estimate

$500–$700

Hammer price

$500

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author

BACHIAH BEN ASHER

printer

Azriel b. Joseph Aschkenazi Gunzenhauser, 3rd July

Place

Naples

Publication

1492

Description

Single leaf. Second incunable edition. Title words within foliate woodcut white-on-black border

references

Vinograd, Naples 21; Mehlman 2; Offenberg 8; Freimann-Marx, Thesaurus A-74; Goff Heb-6; Lakerson, Ohel Hayim IN-4

summary

Of the first edition, printed just a few months earlier, only fragments are extant, found in Cincinnati (HUCL), New York (JTSL) and Jerusalem (Schocken). See Offenberg no. 7 Regarding the suggestion that it was the printer Gunzenhauser’s brother-in-law, Moses b. Isaac, who was the engraver who designed the decorative woodcuts found in this Naples edition, see A. Marx, Jewish Quarterly Review (1920-1) Vol. XI p.113. See also J. Bloch, Hebrew Printing in Naples (reprinted 1976) p.21. Title illustrated EJ, IV col.104

4to. Framed

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