Important Judaica

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Abraham Ibn Ezra's Commentary on the Pentateuch, [Ottoman Empire, 15th century]

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December 18, 04:51 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The present manuscript begins with Genesis 24:16 ends with Exodus 23:16. It contains minor variations from the Weiser edition of Ibn Ezra’s commentary.


Folios 16r-17v contain comments on the divine names found in Exodus 3:15, along with geometrical figures.


Sotheby’s is grateful to Menahem Schmelzer z”l and Benjamin Richler for cataloguing this manuscript.


Physical Description

52 leaves on paper, 10 ¾ x 8 ¼ inches; 272 x 211 mm, written in brown ink in Byzantine script on paper, one parchment bifolio (fols. 47-48), some marginal notes, chart and geometrical figures (fol.17), modern foliation in pencil; some leaves mended and reinforced (fols. 29, 41, 43, 51, etc.) Library buckram binding.


Literature

Hirschfeld (ms. no. 11); Perushei ha-Torah le-Rabbenu Abraham ibn Ezra, ed. Asher Weiser, 1976; on Ibn Ezra see Montefiore ms. 10.

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