Selections from The Valmadonna Trust Library: Highly Important Hebrew Printed Books
Nov 10, 2017
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LOT 22:
BACHIAH BEN ASHER
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Biur al HaTorah [Kabbalistic commentary to the Pentateuch]
(ff. 260). Stained, Opening leaf supplied in facsimile, few marginal repairs, final leaf laid down with loss supplied in facsimile. Modern crushed morocco, slip-case. Folio. Vinograd, Rimini 5; Mehlman 640.
Gershom Soncino, Rimini: 1524-26.
The immense popularity of Rabbeinu Bachiah’s work is attested to by the dozen or so super-commentaries written to it. Additionally, his commentary serves as the oldest source for a number of otherwise unknown Midrashim, whose manuscript forms have since been lost.
