Auction 94 Part 2 Rare and Important Items

Five Books of the Torah and Five Megillot – With the Commentary of Rabbi Yitzchak Aboab – Venice, 1548

Opening: $5,000
Estimate: $8,000 - $10,000
Sold for: $9,375
Including buyer's premium

Five Books of the Torah, with Targum Onkelos, Rashi's commentary, Ramban's commentary, and supercommentary by R. Yitzchak Aboab to the Ramban; Five Megillot with Targum, Rashi's commentary, and order of Haftarot for the whole year. Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1548.
Large format. First edition of R. Yitzchak Aboab's commentary printed together with the Torah and Ramban (the commentary was first published on its own in 1525).
Colophon at the end of the Torah part, on p. 343b: "And the work was completed at the end of Adar 1548, by the man appointed over the work, Cornelio Adelkind of the house of Levi". At the end of the Haftarot: "By Cornelio Adelkind in Daniel Bomberg's press".
A separate title page for the Haftarot for the whole year according to the Sephardic and Ashkenazic customs.
Censorship inscription on the last leaf.


381, [1]; 26 leaves. Leaf 344 after the Torah originally blank. 32 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Worming. Tears, including a repaired tear on the title page, affecting the title page frame and the text on the other side of the leaf (without loss), and small open tears on the margins of some of the leaves. On leaf 25 of the second sequence there is a large open tear (affecting text), repaired by gluing a leaf from another copy with the missing fragment of the text (and paper filling on the margins of the leaf). Notations. New leather binding.

Incunabula and Early Printed Books
Incunabula and Early Printed Books