Auction 70
Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Mar 31, 2020
Israel
8 Ramban St, Jerusalem.
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Five Books of the Torah and Five Megillot - With the Commentary of Rabbi Yitzchak Aboab - Venice, 1548 - Lacking ...
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Five Books of the Torah and Five Megillot - With the Commentary of Rabbi Yitzchak Aboab - Venice, 1548 - Lacking Title Page and Other Leaves - Signatures
Five Books of the Torah, with Targum Onkelos, the Rashi commentary, Ramban, supercommentary by R. Yitzchak Aboab to the Ramban; Five Megillot with Targum, the Rashi commentary, and order of Haftarot for the whole year. [Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1548].
Large format. First edition of R. Yitzchak Aboab's commentary printed together with the Torah and Ramban (the commentary was first published on its own in 1525).
Colophon at the end of the Torah part, on p. 343b: "And the work was completed at the end of Adar 1548, by… Cornelio Adelkind HaLevi".
Divisional title page for the section of year-round Haftarot according to Sephardi and Ashkenazi rite.
Ownership inscription on p. 224a (trimmed): "I, Yaakov Chazan, who was in the community of... in Slutsk... Lithuania... in the year [1651]". Another inscription on p. 373a.
Incomplete copy. 4-9, 11-14, 16-343, 345-[382]; 25 leaves. Lacking 7 leaves: First 3 leaves (including title page, replaced in photocopy), leaves 10 and 15 of first sequence (with handwritten replacement), leaf [344] - originally a blank leaf between Torah and the Five Megillot, and final leaf, with the names of cantillation marks. 31 cm. Thick paper. Overall fair condition. Stains and wear. Some leaves very stained. Tears to some leaves, affecting text, repaired with paper. Worming to several leaves. Leaves trimmed, affecting edge of text and page headings on several leaves. New binding. Bookplate and library labels.
