Abudraham [commentary to prayers, including the Passover Hagadah].

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $1,500

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

ABUDRAHAM, DAVID

printer

Cornelio Adelkind for Marco Antonio Giustiniani

Place

Venice

Publication

1547

Description

Letters of title historiated. Printer’s device on title (Yaari, Hebrew Printer’s Marks 16). Printed in double columns. Wider margins. Marginal notations. Title-page with previous owner’s notations including one by “Luzzatto of Asti.” Censored in places with officiating signatures at end, including one by Boniforte del Asinari in both Latin and Hebrew.

references

Vinograd, Venice 259.

summary

Unfortunately, few facts have survived concerning the biography of R. David Abudraham. This work, his magnum opus, was completed in Seville in 1340 and is considered by critical scholars as a highly important repository of Spanish and Provencal tradition which, without it, would otherwise have been lost. It was first printed in Lisbon, in 1490.

ff. 86. Margins slightly frayed, stained in places, first and last leaf neatly remargined, previous owner’s marks, signatures on title-page. Bound in Valmadonna-custom chestnut calf, blind-tooled with elegant gilt piping. Sm. folio.

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