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BACHIAH BEN ASHER Biur al HaTorah [Kabbalistic commentary to the Pentateuch] Title letters within decorative woodcut vignettes. Scattered marginalia, signed by censors on recto and verso of final leaf; wherever censored, the censored words are resupplied in the margin. ff. 286. Title supplied from a slightly shorter copy, some staining, Later elaborate blind-tooled morocco, extremities rubbed. 4to. Vinograd, Riva 4. Riva di Trento: Jacob Marcaria & Joseph Ottolenghi 1559 For an excellent study on the Kabbalistic sources of R. Bachiah, see E. Gottlieb, “Mekorotav shel R. Bachya…be-Kitvei R. Yoseph Gikatilla,” in Bar Ilan University Annual, Vol. I (1969) pp. 3063-26; idem, “R. Yitzchak Sagi Nahor ve-Talmidav - Mekorot R. Bachya be-Kitvei ha-Mekubalim,” Bar Ilan University Annual, Samuel Bialoblocki Memorial Volume, (1964) pp. 215-50. For an excellent study on the Kabbalistic sources of R. Bachiah, see E. Gottlieb, “Mekorotav shel R. Bachya…be-Kitvei R. Yoseph Gikatilla,” in Bar Ilan University Annual, Vol. I (1969) pp. 3063-26; idem, “R. Yitzchak Sagi Nahor ve-Talmidav - Mekorot R. Bachya be-Kitvei ha-Mekubalim,” Bar Ilan University Annual, Samuel Bialoblocki Memorial Volume, (1964) pp. 215-50.