(Attributed to). Biuri’m [super-commentary to Rashi on the Pentateuch]

SHAPIRO, NATHAN

Matteo Zannetti (for Bernardo Justinian)

Venice

1593

FIRST EDITION. Title within a garlanded architectural arch. Opening words within a decorative woodcut. Woodcut illustration of the ladder of Jacob on f. 28; the Temple candelabra on f. 85; eight of the spies carrying a large bunch of grapes on verso of f. 131; map of Biblical Israel on verso of f. 150. Extensive marginalia on verso of title, verso of final leaf and 132b, 133a, 134b, 169a, 175b, 176a, 177b. Signatures of previous owners on title (Elchanan b. Yekuthiel) and first leaf stating that the volume had belonged to the deceased Lipman Betman. Names of other owners on final leaf legible (Eliezer b. Hachaver R. Menachem) but crossed out.

Vinograd, Venice 778; Mehlman 609.

This work was banned in the districts of Lublin and Cracow as the author’s son stated that it was falsely attributed to his father in order to promote sales. He later published his father’s actual writings on Chumash Rashi under the name Imrei Shepher in 1597. See E. Katzman, Yeshurun, Vol. XIII; P. Krieger, Parshandatha (2005) 366. Regarding the map, see Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land, no. W.10. The marginalia on the verso of the title states “all this I heard in the name of my teacher HaGaon HaGadol…Gershon…” The marginalia on 169a are also signed “M(oreinu) H(arav) R. Gershon.”