Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures
Torat HaElohim – Bereshit with Minchat Shai and Other Commentaries, By Rabbi Wolf Heidenheim – Offenbach, 1797 – Printing Not Completed
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Torat HaElohim, Book of Bereshit, with commentaries of Rashi, Onkelos, Minchat Shai, references and notes by R. Wolf Heidenheim, and other commentaries. Offenbach: printer not indicated, [1797].
The book was published one booklet at a time up to the middle of Miketz (Bereshit 43: 16), and its printing was not completed.
Signature on title page: "Yaakov de Pinto" [a Torah scholar and prominent member of the 19th century Hague community].
412 leaves. Approx. 20 cm. Good condition. Stains. Light worming to margins of several leaves. Old binding, with leather spine and corners. Light damage to binding.
R. Wolf Heidenheim completed his commentary Havanat HaMikra printed here, with variations, in Moda LaBinah, printed 1818.
Zedner, p. 112; Cowley, p. 104.
Bible and Psalms
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