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Sefer Avni Zion by B. Berkovich, Vilna, 1877, Hebrew and Rashi Script - Sefer Avni Zion by B. Berkovich Vilna, 1877, Hebrew and Rashi Script 70 pp., hard cover, 22.4 x 15.5 cm. Condition: cover worn, rubbed; spine over taped; light brown paper The Rashi script or Sephardic script (Hebrew: כְּתַב רַשִׁ״י, romanized: Ktav Rashi) is a typeface for the Hebrew alphabet based on 15th-century Sephardic semi-cursive handwriting. It is named for the rabbinic commentator Rashi, whose works are customarily printed in the typeface (though Rashi himself died several hundred years before the script came into use). It was taken as a model by early Hebrew typographers such as Abraham Garton, the Soncino family and Daniel Bomberg in their editions of commented texts (such as the Mikraot Gedolot and the Talmud, in which Rashi's commentaries prominently figure).