(MIDRASH).

Daniel Bomberg

Venice

1546

Tuviah ben Eliezer. Pesikta Zutratha. [Midrash Lekach Tov to the Books of Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy]. FIRST EDITION. ff.93. [Vinograd, Venice, 269; Haberman, Bomberg 187; Adams T- 766]. * With: Midrash Tehilim [Midrash Shocher Tov on Psalms]. Third Edition. ff.66. [Vinograd, Venice, 273]. Adjacent to colophon, an original commentary to Psalms 119:169-176, signed by Samuel Sha’ar-Aryeh (see below). * Midrash Shmuel [Midrash on Book of Samuel]. Second Edition. ff.50-62. [Vinograd, Venice 273; Habermann, Bomberg 193; Adams M-1426]. * Midrash Mishlei [Midrash on Book of Proverbs]. Second Edition. Opposite title of Midrash Mishlei, inscription of censor, “Vittorio Eliano,” apostate nephew of Hebrew grammarian Elijah Levita. (See Wm. Poppers, The Censorship of Hebrew Books, pp. 43-44, 47-48, 54.) ff.65-69, 6-7,72-73, 76 (i.e. 74). [Vinograd, Venice 273; Habermann, Bomberg 193; Adams M-1426.] * Anav, Zedekiah ben Abraham ha-Rophe. Shibolei ha-Leket.[“The Gathered Sheaves”: Rabbinic code]. FIRST EDITION. ff.55. [Vinograd, Venice 295; Habermann, Bomberg 182; Adams Z-117]

Unpublished Commentary in Marginal Note by Samuel Portaleone. Samuel Sha’ar-Aryeh [Portaleone] was a member of a distinguished family of Mantuan physicians. Israel Abrahams published Samuel Portaleone’s “Proposed Restrictions on Games of Chance.” Abrahams notes that the British Museum possesses an autograph manuscript of Portaleone’s sermons on the Pentateuch. Simonsohn records a eulogy by R. Samuel Portaleone for R. Hananiah Finzi in Mantua in 1630. Samuel’s autograph comments to the final verses of Psalm 119, state that it is only by adherence to the observance of the precepts and the diligent study of the Torah will the Jewish people be protected from becoming “as lost sheep” during their lengthy Exile (Galuth). See I. Abrahams, JQR (old series), Vol. V (1893), pp. 505-515; Simonsohn, History of the Jews in the Duchy of Mantua (1977), pp. 535, 709; C. Roth, The History of the Jews of Italy (1946), pp. 202-3