Mekor Chaim [super-commentary to Abraham ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch]
AUCTION 34 |
Tuesday, September 12th,
2006 at 1:00
Exemplary Hebrew Books: The Library of Joseph Gradenwitz, Esq.
Lot 147
ZARZA, SAMUEL
Mekor Chaim [super-commentary to Abraham ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch]
Mantua: Meir b. Ephraim of Padua & Jakob b. Naphtali Hakohen of Gazolo 1559
Est: $400 - $600
PRICE REALIZED $800
With a Hebrew ownership inscription on title, London, 1732.
The author, a 14th-century Spanish philosopher resident of Valencia, recounts in the introduction of the present work the suffering of the Jews of Castille as a result of the civil-war between Dom Pedro, Duke of Coimbra and his brother Henry the Navigator. In Toledo alone 10,000 Jews are said to have lost their lives. In his afterword, the author states he included an exposition of most of Moreh Nevuchim as few of his generation fully comprehended Maimonides’ thought process