Imrei Shefer [supra-commentary to Rashi on the Chumash, focusing especially on the Mizrachi].

SPIRA (SHAPIRO), NATHAN NOTA.

Cracow 1591 - Lublin,

1597

FIRST EDITION. Title within architectural arch. Several signatures on opening two leaves (17th-19th centuries).

Vinograd, Lublin 60.

The author (c. 1490-1577), grandfather of the author of Sepher Megaleh Amukoth (see previous lot), was an important halachic authority and head of the rabbinic court in Grodno. The present work was brought to press by R. Shapiro’s son, R. Yitzchak, who writes in the introduction here he began printing the work in Cracow but was then called to serve as a Dayan in Lublin, forcing him to suspend printing until finally it was finished in 1597 in his newly-adopted hometown. The younger Shapiro also warns that a similar work published in Venice in 1593 and attributed to his father was in fact a forgery and did not at all represent his father’s level of scholarship.