Zevach Pesach, With commentary by Don Isaac Abrabanel and notes of the printer, Jacob Marcaria. With laws and customs of both Sephardim and Aschkenazim.

Estimate: $7,000–$9,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(HAGADAH).

printer

Jacob Marcaria

Place

Riva di Trento

Publication

1561

Description

Marginalia.

references

Yudlov 22; Yerushalmi pl. 27.

summary

The only Hagadah to be issued in this small northern Italian town situated alongside Lake Garda. Jacob Marcaria was a physician-scholar who published books covering all branches of Jewish scholarship. He often added lucid and erudite prefaces of his own to the Hebrew books he printed. This Hagadah contains not only a short preface by Marcaria, but also seven pages of his own commentary to the Seder. According to Yudlov, Marcaria’s additional commentary has never been republished.

ff. (34). Opening few leaves laid to size, few stains, stamp removed, censors signatures (including one in Hebrew). Modern blind-tooled morocco. Folio.

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