Biur al Hatorah [Kabbalistic homilies to the Pentateuch].

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

RECANATI, MENACHEM.

printer

Cornelio Adelkind for Giustiniani

Place

Venice

Publication

1545

Description

Second edition. Printer’s device on title. Initial letters of each of the Five Books historiated. The Israel Mehlman copy.

references

Vinograd, Venice 253.

summary

Recanati’s commentary to the Chumash is the very first of its kind, permeated as it is with the conceptions of the early Kabbalists. It is the first to refer to the Books of the Zohar and the Bahir, from which a large number of citations, along with their interpretations, are provided. The author was one of the foremost Italian Kabbalists and Halachic authorities of the 13th-century. For a full appreciation of his significance, see M. Idel, R. Menahem Recanati, HaMekubal (1998).

ff. 235. Stained, some worming, few leaves supplied from another copy, marginal paper repairs. Modern boards. 4to.

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