Tiferet - Auction 50 of the Tiferet Auction House
Rare and exciting collection of precious items, the best of collectibles and Segulah items:
Letters by Chassidic shepherds, pedigreed copies of Tzaddikim, manuscripts by leading rabbis, books printed at the pedigreed printeries of Slavuta and Zhytomyr, artifacts that had belonged to Tzaddikim and first editions.
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LOT 32:
Rare! Ramban on the Torah, Venice - 1545 Copy of the Mahari Aboab
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Start price:
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1,800
Estimated price :
$4,000 - $6,000
Buyer's Premium: 25%
VAT: 17%
On commission only
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Rare! Ramban on the Torah, Venice - 1545 Copy of the Mahari Aboab
Ramban on the Torah, second edition, rare. Copy of Rabbi Yitzchak Aboab.
Elucidation on the Torah by Rabbi Moshe ben Rabbi Nachman Girondi. Marco Antonio Justinian Press, Venice, [1545]. Second edition, rare.
156, [1] leaves. 28 cm. Some of the title page and the following leaf are missing and were completed with script. On the title page, the signature of Rabbi Yitzchak Aboab. A handwritten gloss on the margin of leaf 6.
Rabbi Yitzchak Aboab (the third, ben Rabbi David) de Fonseca (1605-1693) - fearing the Inquisition, he escaped as a child with his family from Portugal to Amsterdam. There, he was a disciple of Rabbi Yitzchak Uziel. In 1625, when he was only twenty, he was appointed Rav of the Jewish-Portuguese community of Amsterdam. During the years 1642-1649, he served as Rav and Av Beis Din of Pernambuco, Brazil and was one of the first rabbis and Jewish writers in America. When Brazil was occupied by Portugal, he returned to Amsterdam and his position of Rav of its Jewish-Portuguese community.
Renewed binding. Stains. Blemishes affecting the text of the first two leaves; the missing text was completed with script. Moth holes. Fair condition.
