Auction 94 · Lot 366

Eliyah Mizrachi [super-commentary to Rashi on the Chumash].

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $3,000

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

MIZRACHI, ELIYAHU.

printer

Daniel Bomberg

Place

Venice

Publication

1545

Description

Second edition. Title within woodcut architectural border. First word of each Book of Pentateuch within ornate surround. Map of Eretz Israel on f. 280v.

references

Vinograd, Venice 235.

summary

Possibly the most well-known Romaniote rabbi, R. Elijah Mizrachi (c. 1450-1526) was well-versed in Torah and secular fields of knowledge. He served as the rabbi of newly Ottoman Constantinople, and essentialy served as the leading Rabbinic authority throughout the Ottoman Empire. R. Elijah Mizrachi’s map of the Holy Land first appeared in the Venice 1523 edition of his super-commentary. Although primitively drawn, it correctly notes the borders of Eretz Israel and the places mentioned in Deuteronomy. See E. & G. Wajntraub, Hebrew Maps of the Holy Land (1992) pp. 19-21, and no. W8.

ff. 320. Previous owner’s marks, lightly stained in places. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum over thick wooden boards, later clasps. Folio.

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