Mekor Chaim [super-commentary to Abraham ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch].

Auction 85 | Thursday, November 07th, 2019 at 1:00pm
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 200
ZARZA, SAMUEL

Mekor Chaim [super-commentary to Abraham ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch].

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Owner’s signature on title page: Binyamin b. Hirsch Niederhofheim. ff. 130. Browned, stained in places. f.125 repaired affecting text, slight marginal tear on f.126. Modern half-calf. Folio. Vinograd, Mantua 63 (noting the existence of typographic variances); Adams S-241.

Mantua: Meir ben Ephraim of Padua & Partner 1559

Est: $500 - $700
PRICE REALIZED $750
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.