Auction 63
Lot 185:
Set of Chumashim Mikra’ot Gedolot, printed at the printery of Pesil Balavan in Lemberg, with the first edition of the Imrei Shefer commentary by the Gaon Rabbi Shlomo KLuger Av Beit Din of Brod – published by his son and successor the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Binyamin Kluger – Lemberg, 1885.
On verso of the second title page, a lengthy foreword by the editor Rabbi Avraham Binyamin Kluger, the author’s son, who asks the readers to study the book carefully: "ושאלתי ובקשתי מאת כל רב וצורב וחבר, אם ישים מבטו בזה הספר, הנותן אמר"י שפ"ר, לא ידמה בדעתו כי בסקירה אחת הכל יסקור, אך יעיין בדקדוק וחקר, אז ידע ויכיר, כי לתבונתו של אאמו"ר הגאון המחבר אין חקר".
In that same year, an edition of the commentary only was published by the same printery of Pesil Balavan, using the same font. Thus, it is difficult to determine which edition is earlier. However, the title page of the separate book refers to the Chumashim: והמה דברים יקרים מאירים כספירים, וכזוהר הרקיע מזהירים, ואל החומשים נספחים ומחוברים" implying that the publication of the Chumashim preceded that of the book.
The Chumashim also contain the Onkelos Targum, Rashi’s commentary, the Yonatan ben Uziel targum, Or Hachaim, Ba’al Haturim, Toldot Aharon, Ibn Ezra, Siftei Chachamim and the Ramban. At the end of each section, Seder Tfilah for Sabbath.
Five sections.
I. [3], 404 leaves, 24 pp.
II. [2], 419 leaves, 24 pp.
III [2], 287 leaves, 24 pp.
IV. [2], 304 leaves, 24 pp.
V. [2], 320 leaves, 24 pp.
Good conditions. Detached leaves. Re-bound spines. The Siddur at the end of Vayikra is blemished. Mounted leaves on the inner margin at the beginning of Chumash Bereshit. Some moth perforations to some of the volumes. Original bindings, some of them with a new spine.
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