Bidspirit auction | ARAMA, YITZCHAK. Yad Avshalom [commentary

ARAMA, YITZCHAK. Yad Avshalom [commentary to the Book of Proverbs - Mishlei, with text]. FIRST EDITION . Title with signature of Chief Rabbi Mordechai Gerondi of Padua (1799-1852). ff. (94). Ex-library, several margins repaired, stained in places. Later half-morocco over marbled boards. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Constantinople 225. (Constantinople c. 1565) Yad Avshalom (see Samuel II, 18:18) consists of essays connecting verses from different parts of Mishlei in order to develop various coherent ideas. The author titled and dedicated the work to his son-in-law Avshalom, who passed away just weeks following his marriage. R. Yitzchak Arama (c. 1420-94) who served as rabbi in several Spanish communities before the expulsion of 1492, is best known for his Akeidath Yitzchak (first edition: Salonika, 1522) a collection of philosophical and allegorical commentaries to the Chumash that exercised great influence on subsequent Jewish thought.