Hebrew. WRITINGS). Psalms with commentary of David Kimchi. Five Scrolls, Daniel & Ezra/Nechemia (Lacking Job and Chronicles). With classic commentaries (Rashi, Ralbag).

(BIBLE

Joseph Aschkenazi Gunzenhauser

(Naples

1487)

Text in square script with Nikud. Commentary in rabbinic script without Nikud. Initial words of Song of Songs within white-vine woodcut border.

Vinograd, Naples 2&4; Mehlman 23&24; Offenberg 36&46; Goff Heb-26; Freimann-Marx, Thesaurus A-57&59; Goldstein 51

FIRST EDITION OF WRITINGS IN HEBREW. SECOND EDITION OF KIMCHI’S COMMENTARY TO PSALMS. The extensive contemporary manuscript marginal corrections that appear in this volume would accord with Esterson’s observations in The Commentary of Rabbi David Kimchi on Psalms 42-72 Edited on the Basis of Manuscripts and Early Editions: “In general, [the 1487 edition, second edition of Kimchi’s commentary to Psalms] seems to be a much better text than the 1477 [first] edition, for there are fewer omissions and less serious errors in it. It varies about as much from one of the manuscripts....as it does from the other, leaving much to be desired from the point of view of completness and accuracy.” HUC Annual (1935) viz. pp.311-2. Considering this early edition of Kimchi’s commentary is known to contain inaccuracies, the scribe of these corrections no doubt compared this copy with one of the extant manuscript versions See Sepher Tehillim with Peirush Ha’aruch Shel Hatzadik, edited by Y.N. Brickenstien with an introduction by Y.L. Fishman, Tel Aviv, 1946