Bidspirit auction | (BIBLE). (Ecclesiastes). Sepher Koheleth. Biblical
(BIBLE). (Ecclesiastes). Sepher Koheleth. Biblical Text in square type with Nikud. With commentary of Rashi. Commentary in rabbinic type. A Wide-Margined Copy. The printer omitted a portion of chap. V, verses 17-18, which has here been supplied in an old Italian hand: “Ki hu Chelko: Gam kol Ha’Adam asher Nathan lo Ha’Elo-him” (f. 4v). An early owner records on final page the birth of a son in 1540. Formerly in The Library of the Valmadonna Trust. Complete in ff. 10. Lightly stained, opening leaf remargined, few neat repairs, corners rounded. Modern blind-tooled and paneled morocco. Housed in custom slip-case. Sm. folio. Vinograd, Naples 2; Goff Heb-26; Thes. A-59; Offenberg 46; BMC XIII, p. 51; Iakerson 46. Naples, [Joseph ben Jacob Aschkenazi Gunzenhauser], 1487. From the First Edition of Kethuvim in Hebrew: A freestanding text of Koheleth. See Treasures of the Valmadonna Trust Library - Otzroth Ya’akov, Incunables no. 33.