Auction 4

Illustrated “portrait” of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochay. Warsaw 1885. Probably the first to have been printed

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Printed page in a frame with an illustration which is considered the portrait of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochay, with an inscription underneath: “You should know that in the valuable cache at the library (bibliothèque) in Paris, there was this picture of the Tana Rabbi Shimon bar Yochay.” Printed in Warsaw in 1885, probably the first printing of this illustration as he is accepted today. Tears, mainly in the corners. Stains. Signs of folding with tears. New frame, not checked outside the frame.