Auction 94 · Lot 230
Toldoth Yitzchak.
- Estimate
- $2,000–$2,500
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
KARO, YITZCHAK BEN YOSEPH.
printer
n.p.
Place
Riva di Trento
Publication
1558
Description
Third edition. Initial words of title and sectional headings historiated. An attractive copy.
references
Vinograd, Riva 2.
summary
A concisely written commentary to the Pentateuch which includes literal, homiletical, kabbalistic and philosophical interpretations. The author, Isaac ben Joseph Karo (not to be confused with his celebrated nephew, R. Yoseph Karo), was a native of Toledo and a man of wide culture. Several years prior to the Spanish Expulsion in 1492, Isaac Karo moved his yeshivah to Portugal and following the the subsequent expulsion of the Jews from Portugal in 1497, he fled to Turkey. He entered the rabbinate of Constantinople, where Toldoth Yitzchak was first published in 1518. See EJ, Vol. V col. 193.
ff. (2), 116. Lightly stained, stamps. Later mottled calf, spine gilt, worn. 4to.
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