Auction 103 Part 2 Early Printed Books | Sabbateanism and Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal | Chassidut and Kabbalah | Books Printed in Slavita and Jerusalem | Letters and Manuscripts
Rabbeinu Bachya on the Torah – Venice, 1546 – Printed by Daniel Bomberg – Handwritten Signatures and Glosses
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Commentary of Rabbeinu Bachya on the Torah, by R. Bachya son of Asher ibn Chalawa. Venice: Daniel Bomberg, by Cornelio Adelkind, 1546.
Colophon on last leaf.
Ownership inscriptions on title page: "Yaakov son of R. Asher of Halberstadt". "This book was given to me as a gift by my brother Bendit in Leipzig, winter[?] fair, 1723"; "David Eiger of Halberstadt" [apparently R. David Eiger of Halberstadt, brother of R. Akiva Eiger (the first, author of Mishnat DeRabbi Akiva), sons of R. Simchah Bunam Eiger of Halberstadt, d. 1764].
On verso of title page, piyyut in Ashkenazic cursive script contemporaneous with printing (truncated by paper repair), signed in acrostic and at end: "Menachem son of Chaim". The same signature appears on leaf 2.
Many short glosses and corrections in Ashkenazic cursive script, contemporaneous with printing, some with kabbalistic content (e.g. on pp. 48a, 87b). Several glosses in a later script.
230 leaves. 31.5 cm. Varying condition of leaves, fair to good-fair. Stains, including dampstains. Tears, including small open tears (including margins of title page), affecting text, mostly repaired with paper filling. Worming, affecting text, partially repaired with paper filling. Title page and last page reinforced by mounting on paper. New leather binding.
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