Pesikta Zutratha [Midrash Lekach Tov to the Books of Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy]

TUVIAH BEN ELIEZER

Daniel Bomberg

Venice

1546

FIRST EDITION. Scattered marginalia.

Vinograd, Venice, 269.

Inscription on verso of title praises an interpretation in this work written by a son of R. Yitzchak Atzban. Members of this Moroccan rabbinic family served in Meknes and Fez; the most prominent was R. Mordechai b. Yitzchak Atzban (author of Zoveach Todah). See D. Sutton, Aleppo, City of Scholars (2005) pp. 141-42. The Midrash Lekach Tov was composed by Tuviah ben Eliezer in the 11th century and comments on the Bible in both the exegetical and Aggadic style. He frequently quotes and reworks Midrashim from earlier Rabbinic collections. The commentary on the Books of Genesis and Exodus went unpublished until they were rediscovered by Solomon Buber in 1884.