Auction 100 – Important Hebrew Manuscripts and Books from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection
Sifra – Venice, 1545 – Printed by Bomberg – First Complete Edition
Opening: $1,000
Estimate: $1,500 - $2,000
Sold for: $1,625
Including buyer's premium
Sifra (Torat Kohanim), halachic midrash on the Book of Vayikra. Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1545. Second edition.
The first edition of Sifra was printed in Constantinople, ca. 1510, but the printing was interrupted in the middle of Parashat Vayikra. The present item is thus the first complete edition of the work.
Colophon on last page: "Torat Kohanim is completed… proofread and arranged for press by Cornelio son of R. Baruch Adelkind in the press of Daniel Bomberg, Tishrei 1545".
On last page, signature of censor Paolo Visconte of Alessandria, and of censor Giovanni Domenico Carretto, dated 1607.
59 leaves. 30.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Open tears to inner margin of title page, repaired with paper to verso of leaf, and open tears to final leaves, affecting text, repaired with paper. Creases to title page. Old binding, with leather spine and corners. Wear and damage to binding.
CB, no. 3979.
Early Printed Books – Italy
Early Printed Books – Italy