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Korban Aharon, I-II, commentary of Sefer Sifra, by Rabbi Aharon Ibn Chaim. Venice [1609-16011]. First edition. Rare. Pedigreed copy.
The personal copy of Rabbi Yisroel Binyomin ben Rabbi Yeshayau Basan – Sefer Korban Aharon, commentary on Midrash Sifra Torat Cohanim [with the text] published in the lifetime of the author, Rabbi Aharon Ibn Chaim. The last book that was printed at the house of Zuan Di Gara. Venice [1609-16011]. Twp sections in a single volume. First edition. Rare.
139, 302, [4] leaves. 29 cm. On the title page, the signature of Rabbi Yisroel Binyomin ben Rabbi Yeshaya Basan. With some short handwritten glosses. With a foreign notation on the binding. The date of printing appears on the colophon on the last leaf.
About the illustration on verso of the title page, see Avraham Yaari, Diglei Hamadpisim HaIvriyim, illustration 35.
At the beginning of the book there is an elucidation titled Midot Aharon on Brayta DeRabbi Yishmael ‘בשלש עשרה מדות התורה נדרשת’.
Rabbi Aharon ben Rabbi Avraham Ibn Chaim (1555-1632) was born in Fes, Morocco to a family whose origin was Spanish exiles. A disciple of his father and of Rabbi Yosef Almosnino. Served as Dayan in Fes at the Beis Din of Rabbi Yehuda Uziel the second. To print his books Lev Aharon and Korban Aharon with Midot Aharon, he travelled to Venice. After three years, he travelled to Egypt and from there immigrated to Eretz Yisroel and settled in Jerusalem.
His book Korban Aharon had additional editions and was widely distributed as a basic book on the Sifra.
Zuan Di Gara – worked at first at Daniel Bomberg’s printery. Since 1564, he managed a famed, independent printery in Venice, the central city that printed Hebrew books in his period. He printed dozens of Hebrew books and his printery continued to operate for several years after his passing. The last book that was printed there was this one, Korban Aharon’; thus its significance to collectors and bibliographers.
Rabbi Yisroel Binyomin Basan (1701-1790) one of the leading sages of Regio, Italy, Was also a famed poet and Darshan. His responses are introduced in Sefer Todat Shelamim, II (Venice, 1741). His father, the famed Gaon Rabbi Yeshayahu Basan, was the Rav of the Ramchal.
Leather binding with blemishes. Stains. Some taping. Good condition.
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