Lot 33
  • 33

Gersonides (Levi ben Gershom)

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

Perush Iyov (Commentary on Job). [Ferrara]: Abraham ben Hayyim of Pesaro, 4 Sivan 5237 (16 May 1477)



Super-Royal 8vo, printed on quarter-sheets (8½ × 5¾ in.; 218 × 145 mm). Type 1:113 (sc.). 23 lines. collation: [110 28 310 48 510 68 76 8–910 10–118 12–1310 146]: 121 (of 122 leaves), lacking fol. 122, supplied by photostat, the two blank half-lines for heading on fol. 1r supplied in brown ink by an early hand, fol. 1 stained and crudely remargined, with several holes in leaf affecting letters, modern pencil notes in early leaves, worming in inner margins of quires 7–9, the paper of most leaves firm and fresh, a very large copy with deckle preserved on most leaves. Early nineteenth-century vellum, edges plain from earlier binding.

Literature

Offenberg 51; Goff Heb-70, Hain 10061; Steinschneider 6138.15; Thes A12; Iakerson 17; BMC XIII 23 (C.50.b.5). V. Colorni, Judaica minora (1983), p. 457.

Condition

Perush Iyov (Commentary on Job). [Ferrara]: Abraham ben Hayyim of Pesaro, 4 Sivan 5237 (16 May 1477) Super-Royal 8vo, printed on quarter-sheets (8½ × 5¾ in.; 218 × 145 mm). Type 1:113 (sc.). 23 lines. collation: [110 28 310 48 510 68 76 8–910 10–118 12–1310 146]: 121 (of 122 leaves), lacking fol. 122, supplied by photostat, the two blank half-lines for heading on fol. 1r supplied in brown ink by an early hand, fol. 1 stained and crudely remargined, with several holes in leaf affecting letters, modern pencil notes in early leaves, worming in inner margins of quires 7–9, the paper of most leaves firm and fresh, a very large copy with deckle preserved on most leaves. Early nineteenth-century vellum, edges plain from earlier binding.
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Catalogue Note

First edition, the first Hebrew book printed in Ferrara. The colophon at one place gives the completion date as 4 Sivan, 16 May, and at another as the 49th day of counting the Omer, which would have been 5 Sivan or 17 May, a Saturday. The colophon also mentions in an acrostic one Nathan of Salò, formerly supposed to be a corrector, but from the evidence of Vittore Colorni he was much more probably the financier of the edition.