Bidspirit auction | JAFFE, SHMUEL BEN YITZCHAK ASHKENAZI.

JAFFE, SHMUEL BEN YITZCHAK ASHKENAZI. Yapheh To’ar [commentary to the Midrash Rabah, Bereishith, with text]. First Edition. Letters of title within individual historiated cartouches. Printers device on title (Yaari, Hebrew Printers' Marks 18). ff. 540. Trace stained, previous owner’s marks and inscriptions. Later calf-backed boards, rubbed. Folio. Vinograd, Venice 835. Venice, Giovanni di Gara, 1597-1606. The author was the spiritual leader of the Ashkenazi community of Constantinople during the latter half of the 16th century.