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Lot : 49

Sefer Yesod: Midrash Tehillim and Midrash Shmuel, Bomberg Press.
Venice, 1546. Beautiful Copy

Opening bid: $4,000

Sefer Yesod: Midrash Tehillim and Midrash Shmuel, Bomberg Press.

Venice, 1546. Beautiful Copy

The volume contains two sefarim of early and elementary midrashim, with seperate title pages:
* Midrash Tehillim – Midrashim of Chazal on Sefer Tehillim, also known as midrash ‘Shocher Tov’ after the first letters of the sefer.
* Midrash Shmuel – Midrashim of Chazal on Sefer Shmuel and Mishlei. Included is the alpha-beta commentary of Rabbi Matisya HaItzhari.

This is the first time that the sefer has been printed in its entirety, as a single work. (Previously, the work was printed in two parts, each part in a different printing place.)

Printed by the famous printer Daniel Bomberg, in the city of Venice.
Venice, 1546.

Page Count: 66; 50-62; 65-[74] leaves.

Condition: Good; nice margins. A few stains. New leather binding.

Bibliography: Stefansky Sifrei Yesod, #130 in notes and #131 in notes.