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Isaac ben Naftali Kohen of Ostra. Sefer Kitsur Mizrachi (on Rashi's commentary on the Pentateuch).
Prague, Chayyim Gel Jaekels Kats, 1604-1609, 30.5 x 19 cm.
Very rare. Complete: 263 (woefully misnumbered) leaves.
Collation: 1-12(6) 13(4) 14-23(6) 24(5) 26(6) 27(5) 27-43(6) 44(9). Title within architectural frame, neatly repaired, no loss of text or image. Only one divisional title-page (for Exodus, fol. 77r, dated 1608); beginning of Leviticus and Deuteronomy indicated by woodcut initials; beginning of Numbers not indicated separately. With instructive drawings; e.g. on fol. 240r (=fol. 40(5)), and with woodcut initials, Considerably browned and spotted, some worming. Fol. 230 (=fol. 39(1)) silked, with loss of text. Old stamps and owners' inscriptions and notes. Later half-leather, red edges. In view of its rarity a fine copy.
StCB 5374,1; Zedner 375 (describing a defective copy); Roest 483; not in Yudlov, not in Muneles.
Prague, Chayyim Gel Jaekels Kats, 1604-1609, 30.5 x 19 cm.
Very rare. Complete: 263 (woefully misnumbered) leaves.
Collation: 1-12(6) 13(4) 14-23(6) 24(5) 26(6) 27(5) 27-43(6) 44(9). Title within architectural frame, neatly repaired, no loss of text or image. Only one divisional title-page (for Exodus, fol. 77r, dated 1608); beginning of Leviticus and Deuteronomy indicated by woodcut initials; beginning of Numbers not indicated separately. With instructive drawings; e.g. on fol. 240r (=fol. 40(5)), and with woodcut initials, Considerably browned and spotted, some worming. Fol. 230 (=fol. 39(1)) silked, with loss of text. Old stamps and owners' inscriptions and notes. Later half-leather, red edges. In view of its rarity a fine copy.
StCB 5374,1; Zedner 375 (describing a defective copy); Roest 483; not in Yudlov, not in Muneles.