Bidspirit auction | JACOB BEN ASHER. Peirush HaTorah…

JACOB BEN ASHER. Peirush HaTorah… (Rimzei Ba’al HaTurim).   Second edition. Few words censored. ff. 65 (1). Lightly stained, few marginal repairs, stamp removed from title affecting a few words, with some loss on f.2. Later limp vellum. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Venice 228. Venice, J. de Ferri, 1544. This famed Biblical exegesis consists of Masoretic calculations and hermeneutical interpretations, i.e. Gematria and Notarikon. It is a standard component of all editions of the Chumash that is accompanied by commentaries.  The commentary first appeared in Constantinople, 1514, although bibliographers have taken note of an earlier, probably phantom edition, 14 years prior (Vinograd, Const. 2). The author achieved everlasting renown for his Rabbinic code, the Arba’a Turim (1st ed: Piove di Sacco, 1475).