Lot 263
Shir HaShirim – Aramaic and Jewish-Arabic – Calcutta , 1841
Shir HaShirim with translation of Yonatan Ben Uziel and “commentary in language of Yishma’el”. Calcutta (India), [1841]. Lithograph.
Hebrew source followed by Aramaic translation and Jewish-Arabic commentary, verse following verse. On last leaves, Arabic translation of poem “Mi Kamocha Ve’Ein Kamocha” by Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi, and “song for Purim”. This is the first book printed in lithograph in Calcutta [see A. Ya’ari, Hebrew Press in Oriental Countries, Jerusalem 1940, pp. 17-18].
Stamps Rabbi “Menashe Yechezkel Avraham Matzliach”.
[1], 70, [8] pages. 18 cm. Good condition, stains.
