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(BIBLE,   Pentateuch, Five Megiloth and Haphtaroth). Chamishah Chumshei Torah. Venice, Daniel Bomberg, 1548. With Targum Onkeles and commentaries by Rashi, Nachmanides and FIRST EDITION of the super-commentary to Nachmanides by R. Yitzchak Aboab. Megiloth, Haphtaroth according to the Sephardic and Aschkenazic rite. Divisional title (Haphtaroth). ff. 371( i.e. 382), 26. Trimmed, title laid down, marginal repairs with some loss, leaves washed in places, some staining, previous owners’ marks, few leaves supplied from another copy. Modern calf. Folio. Vinograd, Venice 336. The popularity of Nachmanides’ commentary is evident from its many publications both separately and as part of the Mikra'oth Gedoloth. Already in the 15th-century, scholars saw the need for a super-commentary. R. Yitzchak Aboab (1433-93), the head of the greatest Torah Academy in Spain before the Expulsion, composed one of the most important of these super-commentaries. It was first published independently of Nachmanides’ text, in Constantinople, 1525. The present volume constitutes the first publication of both commentaries together, side by side, on the same page.