Biur al HaTorah [Kabbalistic commentary to the Pentateuch]

Estimate: $600–$800
Hammer price: $600

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author

BACHIAH BEN ASHER

printer

Jacob Marcaria & Joseph Ottolenghi

Place

Riva di Trento

Publication

1559

Description

Title letters within decorative woodcut vignettes. Scattered marginalia, signed by censors on recto and verso of final leaf; wherever censored, the censored words are resupplied in the margin.

references

Vinograd, Riva 4.

summary

For an excellent study on the Kabbalistic sources of R. Bachiah, see E. Gottlieb, “Mekorotav shel R. Bachya…be-Kitvei R. Yoseph Gikatilla,” in Bar Ilan University Annual, Vol. I (1969) pp. 3063-26; idem, “R. Yitzchak Sagi Nahor ve-Talmidav - Mekorot R. Bachya be-Kitvei ha-Mekubalim,” Bar Ilan University Annual, Samuel Bialoblocki Memorial Volume, (1964) pp. 215-50.

ff. 286. Title supplied from a slightly shorter copy, some staining, Later elaborate blind-tooled morocco, extremities rubbed. 4to.

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