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Bidding Information
Lot #    35316
Auction End Date    7/17/2012 2:15:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Bible
Title (Hebrew)    ð'ê òí ôéøåùéí åúøâåí àùëðæé
Author    [Bible] Isaiah b. Hayyim Hochstaedter
City    Karlsruhe
Publisher    Groosh. priv. hebr. Buchdruckery
Publication Date    1805-27
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    5 (of 12) volumes, 200:120 mm., lighty age and damp staining. Very good copies bound in modern boards. This edition of the Bible streched for well over a decade with many of the volumes unrecorded, all are rare.
          
Detailed
Description		    Joshua & Judges (1805), Samuel (1826), Kings (1826), Isaiah (1827), Minor Prophets (1827), with commentaries and translation into German. The title page lists the contents, that is, the biblical book and that the text is accompanied by the commentaries of Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Mikhlal Yofi, and, in bold letters, translated into Ashkenaz (Judeo-German, Yiddish) by Isaiah (Jesaias) ben Hayyim Hochstaedter. There is a dedication by the translator to his father and teacher, R. Hayyim ben Isaac Isaiah ben Hayyim Hochstaedter and to his mother and teacher, Sarah. “from their son whose soul is bound with their souls” (cf. Genesis 44:30) followed by Hochstaedter’s introduction.

Within the volume the biblical text is in square vocalized Hebrew in the outer column at the top of the page. To the left in square unvocalized Hebrew letters is Hochstadter’s “Ashkenaz” translation. Below, in the inner column, is Rashi and next to it, in the outer column, is the commentary of R. Abraham ibn Ezra, both in rabbinic type. Below, across the width of the page in square letters, is the commentary Mikhlal Yofi. All together an attractive compendium of biblical commentaries with a German targum.
          
Reference
Description		    Vinograd, Karlsruhe (only 2 listed) 72, 75; Rosenfeld, Karlsruhe 56, 80, 81, 82, 83,
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew, Judeo-German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica