Auction 52
Lot 050:
Two sections from the chumash Tikkun Sofrim “HaChatzer HaChadasha”, Vayikra and Bamidbar. “It is a tikkun sofrim proofread for our language’s grammar…to write and check a sefer torah…with Rashi’s commentary…and commentary of Rabbi Don Yitzhak Abarbanel and other chiddushim added by … Rabbi Shaul Av Beit Din and Ram of our community…and we called it HaChatzer HaChadasha…”. Written by gaon Rabbi Shaul (Levinstom), Av Beit Din of Amsterdam, author of the Binyan Ariel.
First edition, also appears to be the only edition of this handsome work. Catalogued by the NLI and others in the Rare Books section. Two sections in two volumes—Vayikra: 76; 5 leaves. Bamidbar: 79; 4, [1]. (Leaf 79 of the second section: “an exegesis on the changing of ta’ams mi’layil and me’ilra [first and last stresses] in the names of places in Parshat Mas’ei).
Antique, worn leather bindings (appear original), high-quality paper, stains and signs of use, overall good condition.
Ex Libris in an antique Ashkenazi script: “Nachalat Chaim ben Simcha de Fries for Moshe ben Yosef de Braun in 1898.”
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