Lot 183:

Masores Hamasores, by Rabbi Eliyahu Halevi Ashkenazi. Sulzbach, [1771]. Second edition.

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Masores Hamasores, by Rabbi Eliyahu Halevi Ashkenazi. Sulzbach, [1771]. Second edition.

Masores Hamasores, elucidation on Rimzei Hamasora by Rabbi Eliyahu Bachur. The Press of the Brothers Aharon and Naftali the sons of Meshulam Zalman the Printer, Sulzbach, [1771].

35 leaves. Owner’s signatures and stamps including Rabbi Gershon Vechtel [Ariel], Shoches and Bodek and Shatz in Menheim and Shoches and Bodek and mashgi’ach in Haifa.

Rabbi Eliyahi ben Rabbi Asher Halevi Ashkenazi, Rabbi Eliyahu Bachur (1469-1549) a Talmid Chacham, scholar of Hebrew, proofreader and publisher, was born in Neustadt and from there moved to Venice and Padua, where he worked in copying manuscripts and giving Hebrew lessons to Christian scholars. Later he moved to Rome, continuing his scientific work and Hebrew lessons, writing grammar books and translating Seforim from Hebrew into Latin. When Rome was occupied by the Spanish, he returned to Venice where he served, until 1538, as the manager of the Hebrew Books department of Daniel Bomberg’s printery. Later he was one of the founders of a printery in Germany and published many books. After the printery was closed, down, he returned to Venice, where he passed away.

The introduction to this Sefer by Rabbi Eliyahu contains many discoveries relating to the history and tribulations of the Jewish people, of the author, his period and the occupation of Italy by the Spanish as well as the expulsion of the Jews from Mantua.

In his ‘Rhymed Introduction’, Rabbi Eliyahu refers to the controversy regarding his teaching gentiles Torah and explains the events that led him to teach Hebrew grammar, claiming that such teaching is not included in the prohibition of not teaching gentiles Torah.

No binding, stains, moth holes, fair condition.

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